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Definition: Pyrus domestica
Service
\Serv"ice\, n., or Service
\Serv"ice\ [Properly, the
tree which bears serve, OE. serves, pl., service berries, AS.
syrfe service tree; akin to L. sorbus.] (Bot.)
A name given to several trees and shrubs of the genus
Pyrus, as
Pyrus domestica and
P. torminalis of Europe,
the various species of mountain ash or rowan tree, and the
American shad bush (see
Shad bush, under
Shad). They have
clusters of small, edible, applelike berries.
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Service berry (Bot.), the fruit of any kind of service
tree. In British America the name is especially applied to
that of the several species or varieties of the shad bush
(
Amelanchier.)
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