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
26 April 2024
(noun) a viewpoint toward a city or other heavily populated area; “the dominant character of the cityscape is it poverty”
Coffee starts as a yellow berry, changes into a red berry, and then is picked by hand to harvest. The red berry is de-shelled through a water soaking process and what’s left inside is the green coffee bean. This bean then dries in the sun for 3-5 days, where it is then packed and ready for sale.
