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Definition of Service tree

1. Noun. Medium-sized European tree resembling the rowan but bearing edible fruit.

2. Noun. Any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit.

Definition of Service tree

1. Noun. Either of two rare Old World deciduous trees, ''Sorbus domestica'' and ''Sorbus torminalis''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Service Tree

service mark service marks service of process service pack service packs service plaza service program service road service routine service set identifier

service set identifiers service staff service station service stations service stripe service tree (current term) serviceability serviceable serviceableness serviceably

serviceage serviceberries serviceberry serviced serviceman servicemark servicemarks servicemember servicemembers servicemen

Literary usage of Service tree

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1904)
"... SERVICE-TREE, ». The sorb-tree. SERVING-HAND, s. A. waiter. ' Some bottle-ale (quoth be), where ist? Hast any nere at hand ? Tes, sir (said ehe) I pray' ..."

2. Dictionary of Obsolete and Provincial English: Containing Words from the by Thomas Wright (1857)
"The fruit of the service-tree. Some mile o' this town, we were set upon By a sort of country fellows. ..."

3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1906)
"... and " fowler's service tree," because the berries are used by fowlers, ... but is derived (with mutation) from the Latin sorbas, a. service- tree. ..."

4. The American Cyclopaedia: A Popular Dictionary of General Knowledge edited by George Ripley, Charles Anderson Dana (1883)
"The service tree is long-lived, some specimens being thought to be 1000 years old ; it grows from 20 to 60 ft. high, with a large pyramidal head; ..."

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