Quick'en-tree, n.

n. [Eng. quick, a., so called either from its rapid growth, or the great quantity, or the lively color, of its fruit; Ger. quickenbaum, quitzen-baum, quitschenbaum. Cf. QUITCH-GRASS.] (Bot.) A tree, the wild sorb; the Pyrus, or Sorbus, aucuparia, a species of service-tree;—sometimes also called rowan-tree, or roan-tree, mountain-ash, also fowl-pear, because the apples are used as a bait for birds.