sloe
Plural: sloes
Noun
- The small, tart, dark blue fruit of the blackthorn bush.
- wild plum of northeastern United States having dark purple fruits with yellow flesh
- a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits
- small sour dark purple fruit of especially the Allegheny plum bush
- 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
- He knew ’SLOE’ was a valid word, but it scored too few points to be strategic in Words With Friends.
Origin / Etymology
From Middle English slo, sla, sloo, from Old English slā, slāh, from Proto-West Germanic *slaihā, from Proto-Germanic *slaihǭ, *slaihwō, from Proto-Indo-European *(s)leh₃y- (“bluish”). Doublet of Sliwa.
Synonyms
Alleghany plum, Allegheny plum, blackthorn, Prunus alleghaniensis, Prunus spinosa
Scrabble Score: 4
sloe: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordsloe: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
sloe: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 5
sloe: valid Words With Friends Word