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sorb

9.9

A small hard sour fruit that grows on a wild European tree

noun
/sɔrb/

: sorb

They made a delicious jam from the sorb fruit gathered from the service trees.

Examples

The chef added diced sorb to the salad for an interesting and tart taste.
The sorb was harvested in late autumn for its unique flavor and texture.
Z-sorb has been tested for use in both GE moving-bed and fixed-bed configurations.

Academic text (1994)

Synonyms

sorb apple

vssorb

9.9

A small tart fruit from Europe with a gritty texture

is the broader term covering similar fruit from related Sorbus trees

Compounds

sorb apple tree

9.9

A medium-sized European tree that makes small fruit you can eat

sorb apple

9.9

A medium-sized tree from Europe that produces small edible fruit

sorb apple

9.9

A small tart fruit from Europe with a gritty texture

How Acidic

lemon

318 1.0

crabapple

1 6.3

sorb

9.9

apple

583 1.0

Surface Forms

sorb singular

sorbs plural

Etymology

The word sorb for the small, tart fruit comes from the Latin sorbus, the 'service tree' that makes these fruits, so a sorb is simply the fruit of that tree.