| 单词 | wild service-berry |
| 释义 | > as lemmaswild service-berry a. A fruit of the true service tree, Sorbus domestica; a sorb apple. Also (more fully wild service-berry): a fruit of the wild service tree, S. torminalis. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > fruit or a fruit > pear > [noun] > fruit of service-tree servec1350 aleysa1425 service1530 service-berry1552 service apple1600 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Seruise bery, æsculum. 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball vi. lii. 727 The Sorbe Apples or Seruice beries. 1655 N. Culpeper et al. tr. L. Rivière Pract. Physick x. vi. 300 He was Cured of a desperate Dysentery by eating raw Service-berries [L. sorba cruda], by the advice of an Old Woman. 1746 T. Short Medicina Britannica 179 Medlars (Mespilus) answer the Purposes of Service Berries, against Vomiting, Dysentery, and all other Fluxes. 1887 Gardeners' Monthly & Horticulturist Oct. 313/2 The Service berries he sees before him..are not berries, but little pears. 1971 J. Grigson Good Things 506 Small tawny gold sorb apples and medlars and the clusters of wild service berries make the best of fruit liqueurs. 2011 H. Vos Passion of Foodie 499 Service berry: Fruit of the ‘Sorbus domestica’. < as lemmas |
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