About The Word Sloe
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Sloe
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What's The Definition Of Sloe?
[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 Synonyms | Synonyms for Sloe: Alleghany plum | Allegheny plum | blackthorn | Prunus alleghaniensis | Prunus spinosa Related Terms | Find terms related to Sloe: See Also | Alleghany plum | Allegheny plum | bush | genus Prunus | plum | Prunus | Prunus alleghaniensis | shrub | sloe | sloe | sloe gin | wild plum | wild plum tree Sloe In Webster's Dictionary \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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