SLOE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sloe mean? 

• SLOE (noun)
  The noun SLOE has 3 senses:

1. wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh

2. a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits

3. small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush

  Familiarity information: SLOE used as a noun is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SLOE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Alleghany plum; Allegheny plum; Prunus alleghaniensis; sloe

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 2

Meaning:

A thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

blackthorn; Prunus spinosa; sloe

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)

Sense 3

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))

 Context examples 

Neither was the hair of this brute of a red colour (which might have been some excuse for an appetite a little irregular), but black as a sloe, and her countenance did not make an appearance altogether so hideous as the rest of her kind; for I think she could not be above eleven years old.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, by Jonathan Swift)