bullace

[boo l-is]

noun

Origin of bullace

1300–50; Middle English bolaz; akin to Medieval Latin bolluca, French beloce

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Examples from the Web for bullace

Historical Examples of bullace

The plum ideal is the true nature of the plum, but is not the true nature of the bullace.
What Is and What Might Be
Edmond Holmes
These, and the mulberry, are the most common; next are the bullace and damson.
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and The
William Griffith
The downiness noticed on the underside of the Bullace leaves is here restricted to the ribs of the leaf.
Wayside and Woodland Trees
Edward Step
There they also found grapes so prodigiously large, that they seemed more like bullace than grapes.
The History of Virginia, in Four Parts
Robert Beverley
The bullace ideal is realisable (under favourable conditions) by each individual bullace tree,—but the plum ideal is not.
What Is and What Might Be
Edmond Holmes

British Dictionary definitions for bullace

bullace

noun

a small Eurasian rosaceous tree, Prunus domestica insititia (or P. insititia), of which the damson is the cultivated formSee also plum 1 (def. 1)

Word Origin for bullace

C14: from Old French beloce, from Medieval Latin bolluca, perhaps of Gaulish origin

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