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
A bush of rowan, black sloes, Dusky blackthorns, Plenty of food, acorns, pure berries, Bare flags.
From Ancient Irish Poetry by Various
They proved to have been as black as sloes, very little and very near together.
From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 20 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson
