資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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.
{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}.)