| What does sloe mean? | we found 4 entries for the meaning of sloe |
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]
Source: The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 | ![]() |
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
Source: Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 | ![]() |
sloe noun
1: wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple
fruits with yellow flesh [syn: Allegheny plum, Alleghany
plum, Prunus alleghaniensis]
2: a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits [syn: blackthorn,
Prunus spinosa]
3: small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny
plum bush
Source: WordNet (r) 2.0 | ![]() |
Sloe \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.
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) | ![]() |
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