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Sorb
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| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| an extraordinary or unusual thing, person, or event; an exceptional example or instance. |
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| sorb (sɔːb) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | another name for service tree |
| 2. | any of various related trees, esp the mountain ash |
| 3. | Also called: sorb apple the fruit of any of these trees |
| [C16: from Latin sorbus the sorb, service tree] | |
| 'sorbic | |
| —adj | |
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Sorb
1836 (implied in Sorbian), from Ger. Sorbe, from Slavic Serb, the national designation. Slavic people surviving in Lusatia, eastern Saxony, also known as Wends.
EXPANDsorb
"fruit of the service tree," 1530, from Fr. sorbe, from L. sorbum "service-berry" (small, edible fruit of the European mountain ash), from sorbus, from PIE base *sor-/*ser- "red, reddish-brown." Hence sorbic acid (1815), so called because it was first isolated from these berries.
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