SERVICE TREE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does service tree mean? 

• SERVICE TREE (noun)
  The noun SERVICE TREE has 2 senses:

1. medium-sized European tree resembling the rowan but bearing edible fruit

2. any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit

  Familiarity information: SERVICE TREE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SERVICE TREE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

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

Hypernyms ("service tree" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (parts of "service tree"):

sorb; sorb apple (acid gritty-textured fruit)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "service tree"):

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

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of various North American trees or shrubs having showy white flowers and edible blue-black or purplish fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Juneberry; service tree; serviceberry; shadblow; shadbush

Hypernyms ("service tree" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Meronyms (parts of "service tree"):

juneberry; saskatoon; serviceberry; shadberry (edible purple or red berries)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "service tree"):

alder-leaved serviceberry; alderleaf Juneberry; Amelanchier alnifolia (shrub or small tree of northwestern North America having fragrant creamy white flowers and small waxy purple-red fruits)

Amelanchier bartramiana; Bartram Juneberry (open-growing shrub of eastern North America having pure white flowers and small waxy almost black fruits)

Holonyms ("service tree" is a member of...):

Amelanchier; genus Amelanchier (North American deciduous trees or shrubs)