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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Sorb \Sorb\, n.[L. sorbus the tree, sorbum the fruit; cf F.
sorbe. See {Service tree}.] (Bot.)
a The wild service tree ({Pyrus torminalis}) of Europe;
also the rowan tree.
b The fruit of these trees.
{Sorb apple}, the fruit of the sorb, or wild service tree.
{Sorb tree}, the wild service tree.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
sorb
n : acid gritty-textured fruit [syn: {sorb apple}]
v : take up a liquid or a gas either by adsorption or by
absorption; in chemistry [syn: {take up}]
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