sorb

Meanings

Noun

• The service tree, Sorbus domestica.
• Any of various related trees, including the wild service tree, S. torminalis, and the rowan, S. aucuparia.
• The fruit of any of these trees, especially of the service tree.

Verb

• To absorb or adsorb.

Origin

• Borrowed from Middle French sorbier (the tree), sorbe (the fruit), from Latin sorbus (the tree), sorbum (the fruit). See service tree.
• Ultimately from Latin sorbeo.