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sloe
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun sloe has 3 senses
- sloe(n = noun.plant) alleghany plum, allegheny plum, prunus alleghaniensis - wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh; Array has parts: sloe
- sloe(n = noun.plant) blackthorn, prunus spinosa - a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits; Array is a member of genus prunus, prunus
- sloe(n = noun.food) Array - small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush; Array is a kind of plum
is a kind of wild plum, wild plum tree
is a kind of bush, shrub
is a part of alleghany plum, allegheny plum, prunus alleghaniensis, sloe
CIDE DICTIONARY
sloe, n. [OE. slo, AS. slā; akin to D. slee, G. schlehe, OHG. sl, Dan. slaaen, Sw. sl, perhaps originally, that which blunts the teeth, or sets them on edge (cf. Slow); cf. Lith. slywa a plum, Russ. sliva.].
A small, bitter, wild European plum, the fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa ); also, the tree itself. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
sloe, n.
1 = BLACKTHORN.
2 its small bluish-black fruit with a sharp sour taste.
1 = BLACKTHORN.
2 its small bluish-black fruit with a sharp sour taste.
Idiom
sloe-eyed
1 having eyes of this colour.
2 slant-eyed. sloe-gin a liqueur of sloes steeped in gin.
1 having eyes of this colour.
2 slant-eyed. sloe-gin a liqueur of sloes steeped in gin.
Etymology
OE sla(h) f. Gmc
THESAURUS
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, tarryROGET THESAURUS
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Blackness
N blackness darkness, (want of light), swartliness, lividity, dark color, tone, color, chiaroscuro, nigrification, infuscation, jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow, negro, blackamoor, man of color, nigger, darkie, Ethiop, black, buck, nigger, coon, sambo, lampblack, ivory black, blueblack, writing ink, printing ink, printer's ink, Indian ink, India ink, in mourning.
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