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SLOE

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("sloe" is a kind of...):

plum (any of numerous varieties of small to medium-sized round or oval fruit having a smooth skin and a single pit)

Holonyms ("sloe" is a part of...):

Alleghany plum; Allegheny plum; Prunus alleghaniensis; sloe (wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh)

Holonyms ("sloe" is a substance of...):

sloe gin (gin flavored with sloes (fruit of the blackthorn))

Sense 2

Meaning:

Wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh

Synonyms:

Alleghany plum; Allegheny plum; Prunus alleghaniensis; sloe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sloe" is a kind of...):

wild plum; wild plum tree (an uncultivated plum tree or shrub)

Meronyms (parts of "sloe"):

sloe (small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush)

Sense 3

Meaning:

A thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits

Synonyms:

blackthorn; Prunus spinosa; sloe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("sloe" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("sloe" is a member of...):

genus Prunus; Prunus (a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions)

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