Sloe

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. See blackthorn.
  • n. Either of two eastern North American plum trees or shrubs, Prunus alleghaniensis, having dark purple fruit, or P. americana, having yellow or red fruit.
  • n. The tart plumlike fruit of either of these plants.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The small, bitter, wild fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa); also, the tree itself.
  • n. Any of various other plants of the genus Prunus, as a shrub or small tree, Prunus alleghaniensis, bearing dark-purple fruit.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A small, bitter, wild European plum, the fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa); also, the tree itself.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, a small bluish-black drupe; also, the fruit of P. umbellata.
  • n. The blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, a shrub of hedgerows, thickets, etc., found in Europe and Russian and central Asia.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits
  • n. wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh
  • n. small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    shrub    bush    wild plum tree    wild plum    plum   
    Form
    sloe gin    sloe-eyed   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Au    Beau    Bio    Bo    Bordeaux    Boudreaux    Bow    Cloe    Co    Cousteau   
    Same Context
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