Meaning of SLOE
| Pronunciation: | | slow
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- [n] small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush
- [n] wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh
- [n] a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits
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| | Synonyms: | | Alleghany plum, Allegheny plum, blackthorn, Prunus alleghaniensis, Prunus spinosa |
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| | See Also: | | Alleghany plum, Allegheny plum, bush, genus Prunus, plum, Prunus, Prunus alleghaniensis, shrub, sloe, sloe, sloe gin, wild plum, wild plum tree | |
| Webster's 1913 Dictionary |
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| | Definition: | | \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.
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