sloe

Pronunciation:		slow
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WordNet Dictionary

	Definition:	[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:	Alleghany plum, Allegheny plum, blackthorn, Prunus alleghaniensis, Prunus spinosa

	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

	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.