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Blackthorn

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Noun

1. blackthorn, prunus spinosa, sloe

a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits

2. blackthorn, crataegus calpodendron, crataegus tomentosa, pear haw, pear hawthorn

erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Blackthorn

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noun
1. Also called: sloe
a thorny Eurasian rosaceous shrub, Prunus spinosa, with black twigs, white flowers, and small sour plumlike fruits
2. 
a walking stick made from its wood

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Blackthorn

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noun
1. 
a thorny, white-flowered prunus shrub (Prunus spinosa) with purple or black, plumlike fruit; sloe
2. 
a cane or stick made of the stem of this shrub

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Blackthorn

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n.
1. A thorny deciduous Eurasian shrub (Prunus spinosa) of the rose family, having white flowers and small bluish-black fruits.
2. The fruit of this plant, used chiefly for flavoring alcoholic beverages such as sloe gin. In both senses also called sloe.

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