chess-apple

English

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Noun

chess-apple (plural chess-apples)

1. (archaic) The wild service tree of Europe (Sorbus torminalis).

References

• “chess-apple”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.