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true service
1. Any of various trees of the genus Sorbus (or, occasionally, of the related genus Crataegus); esp. the true service tree, S. domestica (in later use more fully true service).Recorded earliest in service tree n.
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1510 J. Stanbridge Vocabula (new ed.) sig. D.j Arbutus, a seruys tree.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 265/1 Sarves, tree, alisier.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 269/2 Servyse, tree, alisier.
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 72 Vpon the same stocke are graffed..the Medlar, and the Seruisse.
1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xv. xiii. 437 The fruit Sebesten..beeing graffed vpon Sorvices.
1664 J. Evelyn Sylva x. 59 The Service gives the Husbandman an early presage of the approaching Spring, by extending his adorned Buds for a peculiar entertainment.
1718 R. Bradley New Improvem. Planting & Gardening: Pt. 3 (ed. 2) 18 The L'Azzarole or Neapolitan Medlar is a kind of service, producing a very pleasant Fruit.
1787 J. Abercrombie Every Man his Own Gardener (ed. 11) 29 For standards, the principal sorts are apples, pears, plums, cherries, with smaller portions of quinces, medlars, mulberries, filberts, services, &c.
1826 Catal. Plants Garden Hort. Soc. 183 The True Service has the reputation of being the best of the class.
1873 F. H. Hooker & J. D. Hooker tr. E. Le Maout & J. Decaisne Gen. Syst. Bot. ii. 387 Pyrus (Sorbus) domestica (Service)... Wood very finely grained, and takes a good polish.
1907 Gardening Illustr. 28 Dec. 574/2 It [sc. the Wild Service] is, therefore, a more familiar tree than the True Service.
1939 Royal Rec. Tree Planting 62 In the Churchyard of St John's Parish Church [in Seaham Harbour]: 1 service (Sorbus domestica).
1994 P. Roper in Brit. Wildlife 6 14/2 For the purposes of this article, I have taken services as being those members of the genus Sorbus with ripe fruits ranging in colour from brown, through orange to yellow.
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