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SORBUS DOMESTICA

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

service tree; sorb apple; sorb apple tree; Sorbus domestica

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Sorbus domestica" is a kind of...):

mountain ash (any of various trees of the genus Sorbus)

Meronyms (parts of "Sorbus domestica"):

sorb; sorb apple (acid gritty-textured fruit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Sorbus domestica"):

Sorbus torminalis; wild service tree (European tree bearing edible small speckled brown fruit)

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