[syn: blackthorn, sloe, Prunus spinosa]
3. small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Sloe \Sloe\ (sl[=o]), n. [OE. slo, AS. sl[=a]; akin to D. slee,
G. schlehe, OHG. sl[=e]ha, Dan. slaaen, Sw. sl[*a]n, perhaps
originally, that which blunts the teeth, or sets them on edge
(cf. Slow); cf. Lith. slywa a plum, Russ. sliva.] (Bot.)
A small, bitter, wild European plum, the fruit of the
blackthorn (Prunus spinosa); also, the tree itself.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
sloe
n 1: wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple
fruits with yellow flesh [syn: Allegheny plum, Alleghany
plum, sloe, Prunus alleghaniensis]
2: a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits [syn:
blackthorn, sloe, Prunus spinosa]
3: small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum
bush
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
31 Moby Thesaurus words for "sloe":
atramentous, black, black as coal, black as ebony, black as ink,
black as midnight, black as night, coal-black, coaly, dark,
dark as night, dark as pitch, deep black, ebony, ink-black, inky,
jetty, midnight, night-black, night-dark, nigrous, pitch-black,
pitch-dark, pitchy, raven, raven-black, sable, sloe-black,
sloe-colored, tar-black, tarry