service tree

名词 n.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Either of two rare Old World deciduous trees, Sorbus domestica or Sorbus torminalis.
    — Wild cherry and rowan, as well as wild apple, wild pear, wild service tree, whitebeam, and true service tree, are all affected by being nibbled by voles, mice and other wild animals.

词形变化

service trees plural

词源

Properly, the tree that bears sorb fruit, from Middle English serves, plural of serve (“sorb apple, serviceberry”), from Old English syrfe, from Vulgar Latin *sorbea, from Latin sorbus (“service tree”). See sorb.
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