sloe
(noun) small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush
blackthorn, sloe, Prunus spinosa
(noun) a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits
Source: WordNet® 3.1
sloe (plural sloes)
The small, bitter, wild fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa).
The tree Prunus spinosa.
Any of various other plants of the genus Prunus, as a shrub or small tree, Prunus alleghaniensis, bearing dark-purple fruit.
• EOLs, ESOL, Elos, LEOs, Leos, OELs, Sole, elos, leos, lose, sole
Source: Wiktionary
Sloe, n. Etym: [OE. slo, AS. sla; akin to D. slee, G. schlehe, OHG. sl$ha, Dan. slaaen, Sw. sl, perhaps originally, that which blunts the teeth, or sets them on edge (cf. Slow); cf. Lith. sliwa a plum, Russ. sliva.] (Bot.)
Definition: A small, bitter, wild European plum, the fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa); also, the tree itself.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 April 2025
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