From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
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]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
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
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