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Definition of Service 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
2. Noun. Any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit.
Terms within: Juneberry, Saskatoon, Serviceberry, Shadberry
Group relationships: Amelanchier, Genus Amelanchier
Specialized synonyms: Alder-leaved Serviceberry, Alderleaf Juneberry, Amelanchier Alnifolia, Amelanchier Bartramiana, Bartram Juneberry
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
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
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; ..."