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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Sloe \Sloe\ (sl[=o]), noun [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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
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
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
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
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