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Princeton's WordNet
Allegheny plum, Alleghany plum, sloe, Prunus alleghaniensisnoun
wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh
blackthorn, sloe, Prunus spinosanoun
a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits
sloenoun
small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush
Wiktionary
sloenoun
The small, bitter, wild fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa); also, the tree itself.
sloenoun
Any of various other plants of the genus Prunus, as a shrub or small tree, P. alleghaniensis, bearing dark-purple fruit.
Etymology: From slah, from slaihwō. Cognate with Danish slåen, Dutch slee, German Schlehe and perhaps with Russian слива.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Sloenoun
The fruit of the blackthorn, a small wild plum.
Etymology: sla , Saxon; slaae, Danish.
The fair pomgranate might adorn the pine,
The grape the bramble, and the sloe the vine. Richard Blackmore.When you fell your underwoods, sow haws and slows in them, and they will furnish you, without doing of your woods any hurt. John Mortimer, Husbandry.
Wikipedia
sloe
Prunus spinosa, called blackthorn or sloe, is a species of flowering plant in the rose family Rosaceae. The species is native to Europe, western Asia, and regionally in northwest Africa. It is locally naturalized in New Zealand, Tasmania, and the Pacific Northwest and New England regions of the United States. The fruits are used to make sloe gin in Britain and patxaran in Spain. The wood is used to make walking sticks, including the Irish shillelagh.
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sloe
A sloe is the small, dark bluish-black fruit of the blackthorn bush, typically used in making alcoholic drinks such as sloe gin. It's also known as Prunus spinosa, a species of the Rosaceae family.
Webster Dictionary
Sloenoun
a small, bitter, wild European plum, the fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa); also, the tree itself
Etymology: [OE. slo, AS. sl; akin to D. slee, G. schlehe, OHG. slha, Dan. slaaen, Sw. sln, perhaps originally, that which blunts the teeth, or sets them on edge (cf. Slow); cf. Lith. slywa a plum, Russ. sliva.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Sloe
slō, n. the blackthorn, producing white flowers before the leaves, the shoots making excellent walking-sticks: the austere fruit, a good preserve. [A.S. slá; Dut. slee, a sloe.]
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Leos
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Sloe in Chaldean Numerology is: 9
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Sloe in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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