blackthorn

n. small thorny shrub which bears dark sour plumlike fruit, sloe

Blackthorn redirects here; for other uses, see Blackthorn (disambiguation) Prunus spinosa (Blackthorn) is a species of Prunus native to Europe, western Asia, and locally in northwest Africa.It is a deciduous large shrub or small tree growing to 5 m tall, with blackish bark and dense, stiff, spiny branches. The leaves are oval, 2–4.5 cm long and 1.2–2 cm broad, with a serrated margin. The flowers are 1.5 cm diameter, with five slightly creamy-white petals; they are produced shortly before the leaves in early spring, and are hermaphroditic and insect-pollinated. The fruit, called a "sloe" (slae, in the Scots language) is a drupe 10–12 mm diameter, black with a pale purple-blue waxy bloom, ripening in autumn; it is thin-fleshed, with a very strongly astringent flavour when fresh.
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Noun
1. a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits
(synonym) sloe, Prunus spinosa
(hypernym) shrub, bush
(member-holonym) Prunus, genus Prunus
2. erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries
(synonym) pear haw, pear hawthorn, Crataegus calpodendron, Crataegus tomentosa
(hypernym) hawthorn, haw
(member-holonym) Crataegus, genus Crataegus

(n.)
A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.
  

(n.)
A species of Crataegus or hawthorn (C. tomentosa). Both are used for hedges.
  

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