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Definition of Sorb apple tree
1. Noun. Medium-sized European tree resembling the rowan but bearing edible fruit.
Terms within: Sorb, Sorb Apple
Generic synonyms: Mountain Ash
Specialized synonyms: Sorbus Torminalis, Wild Service Tree
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sorb Apple Tree
Literary usage of Sorb apple tree
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Magazine of Horticulture, Botany, and All Useful Discoveries and by C M Hovey (1838)
"It is probably the oldest sorb-apple tree in France; its trunk, which is about
four feet in diameter, is exceedingly short, being divided, at about six feet ..."
2. The Centennial Magazine: An Australian Monthly (1889)
"How I have been worrying about the winter, and now here is food to last till *
Service or sorb-apple tree. spring ! Come along, friends, come along, ..."
3. The royal phraseological English-French, French-English dictionary by John Charles Tarver (1853)
"CORMIER, ». m. service-tree; sorb apple-tree. CORMORAN, ,. m. cormorant. CORNAC, ».
m. thé driver of an elephant. ..."
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