sloe

IPA: sɫˈoʊ

The small, astringent, wild fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa).
The tree Prunus spinosa.
Any of various other plants of the genus Prunus, as a shrub or small tree, Prunus alleghaniensis, bearing dark-purple fruit.

Examples of "sloe" in Sentences

The sloe, which is the blackthorn, comes still earlier and has fewer leaves.
Real tea-leaf tea alone contains the restorative they want; which is not to be found in sloe-leaf tea.
There are readers who love this kind of sloe eyed, narrow waisted, naval academic excercise in adjectivity.
The third sort was a black berry, not in such plenty as the others, and resembled a bullace, or large kind of sloe, both in size and taste.
The third sort was a blackberry; this was not in such plenty as the others and resembled a bullace, or large kind of sloe, both in size and taste.
A lanky, curly-haired young rebel with a kind of sloe-eyed charm, he’d grown up on a series of military bases where his father, a Marine lieutenant colonel, had served.
The fruit, called sloe, can be made into a liqueur called sloe gin, of the "fizz" fame, but Ulrike discovered a distillery that makes it into a kind of sherry made of sloes.
The sloe is a shrub common in our hedgerows, and belongs to the natural order Amygdaleae; the fruit is about the size of a large pea, of a black colour, and covered with a bloom of a bright blue.
And it doesn't hurt that the drink's name also allows for the employment of a stock joke that turns on the fact that most people hear "slow" rather than "sloe" -- the purplish-red berry of the blackthorn bush that gives the liqueur its flavor.