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SORB APPLE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Acid gritty-textured fruit

Synonyms:

sorb; sorb apple

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("sorb apple" is a kind of...):

edible fruit (edible reproductive body of a seed plant especially one having sweet flesh)

Holonyms ("sorb apple" is a part of...):

service tree; sorb apple; sorb apple tree; Sorbus domestica (medium-sized European tree resembling the rowan but bearing edible fruit)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sorb apple" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "sorb apple"):

sorb; sorb apple (acid gritty-textured fruit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "sorb apple"):

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

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