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sloe |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Sloe \Sloe\, n. [OE. slo, AS sl[=a]; akin to D. slee, G. schlehe OHG. sl$ha, Dan. slaaen, Sw sl?n, perhaps originally, that which blunts the teeth, or sets them on edge (cf. {Slow}); cf Lith. sliwa a plum, Russ. sliva.] (Bot.) A small bitter, wild European plum, the fruit of the blackthorn ({Prunus spinosa}); also the tree itself From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: sloe n 1: wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh [syn: {Allegheny plum}, {Alleghany plum}, {Prunus alleghaniensis}] 2: a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits [syn: {blackthorn}, {Prunus spinosa}] 3: small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush
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