sloe
noun
the small, sour, blackish fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, of the rose family.
sloes
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pluralof sloe.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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This applies to lots of fruits that are the same colour including damsons, sloes and juniper berries.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 7, 2024
When you forage for sloes, Horning says, feel the berries for ripeness, but also look for a yeast powder on the berry’s core, “a telltale sign that the fruit’s ripe.”
From Washington Times ● Jan. 1, 2024
Ripening hedge fruits include sloes, hips and haws; it has been a splendid year for acorns, and among the myriad autumn fungi, look out for ceps, or penny-buns as they are sometimes known.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 3, 2020
These and sloes were the only two we recognised, and we took especial care to go in for none of the others; wisely deciding that it was better to confine ourselves to the known.
From In Eastern Seas Or, the Commission of H.M.S. 'Iron Duke,' flag-ship in China, 1878-83 by J. J. Smith
The Garton artificial fertilization experiments have shown endless deviations from the ordinary type, ranging from minute seeds with a closely adhering husk to big berries almost as large as sloes and about as worthless.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 3 "Gordon, Lord George" to "Grasses" by Various
