Genus Sorbus (Noun)
Meaning
A genus of shrubs or trees of the family Rosaceae having feathery leaves.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Rowan is a deciduous tree or shrub species of the genus Sorbus, native to Europe, northwest Africa, and western Asia.
- A number of Sorbus species have been used in herbal medicine for their antiseptic, anti-inflammatory, and antioxidant properties.
- Members of the Sorbus genus are popular ornamental trees and are relatively long lived compared with the vast majority of commonly available UK road plants.
- Autumn flowering by broadleaf wood-sorrels provides opportunity for Sorbus species, common in South Wales countryside and hedgerows at the time, to set their seeds for next year's propagation.
- In old woodland, autumn is often a great time to forage for the fruit of wild trees such as crab apple, mountain ash, field maple, hawthorn, blackthorn, wild pear, wild cherry, Sorbus aucuparia, Sorbus torminalis, and sorb trees of the genus Sorbus.