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Sloe

Sloe Meaning & Definition
Sloe Definition And Meaning

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

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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

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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