1. Any of various trees of the genus Sorbus.
2. Low-growning ash of Texas; SYN. Fraxinus texensis.
3. Tree having wood similar to the alpine ash; tallest tree in Australia and tallest hardwood in the world; SYN. Eucalyptus regnans.
Or rowan; Flowering tree of the genus Sorbus, family Rosaceae. It has pinnate leaves and large clusters of whitish flowers, followed by scarlet berries. The American mountain ash S. americana grows to 30 ft/9 m and is native to NE US. The European mountain ash or rowan tree S. aucaparia is planted widely as an ornamental. + prikaži više

Eurasian tree with orange-red berrylike fruits; SYN. rowan tree, European mountain ash, Sorbus aucuparia.
Another name for the European mountain ash tree.

ETYM Latin sorbus the tree, sorbum the fruit; cf. French sorbe. Related to Service tree.
Acid gritty-textured fruit; SYN. sorb apple.
Member of a western Slavonic people in Germany, numbering about 40,000–45,000. They live mainly in Saxony and have been in the region since the 6th century AD, though numbers have dwindled with assimilation. When East Germany was a separate state, the Sorb language had official status. There is a small separatist movement for an independent Sorb state of Lusatia. This was the name of Sorb-inhabited territory prior to 1835, when it was divided between Saxony and Prussia.
There are two distinct variants of the language, Upper Sorbian. + prikaži više