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Meanings of blackthorn in English

Erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries.

A thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits.

Synonyms
Examples for "sloe"
Examples for "sloe"
1
Another drink that is equally enjoyable but for different reasons is sloe gin.
News.com.au
2
The leaves of the ash and the sloe are used to adulterate tea.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 03, No. 15, January, 1859 / A Magaz...
3
The sloe, which is the blackthorn, comes still earlier and has fewer leaves.
Penelope's Irish Experiences
4
The sloe-eyed gipsy children swinging on his gates were whipped down.
Red Cap Tales, Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of t...
5
She had black, streaming hair, sloe eyes, and an arch expression.
White Shadows in the South Seas
1
The patient had swallowed a thorn of the Prunus spinosa (Linn.
Anomalies and Curiosities of Medicine
Usage of blackthorn in English
1
In blackthorn the long-tailed tit builds the domed nest every one admires.
Nature Near London
2
Hawthorn and blackthorn are two of our most welcome and useful plants.
The Irish Times
3
He selected a blackthorn, twirled it, saluted, and posed before the mirror.
The Drums of Jeopardy
4
We carried blackthorn cudgels to protect us from gamekeepers, lords and dogs.
Shakspere, Personal Recollections
5
They would not let any one cut a blackthorn shoot on Hallowe'en.
The Book of Hallowe'en
6
And you a poet!-onehorn broken off-orhid in the blackthorn hedge!-
The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vo...
7
Like an old blackthorn, they bloomed-oh ,Lord ,thosescoundrels, those old scoundrels!
The Crushed Flower, and Other Stories
8
She knows, of course, to start off with hawthorn and blackthorn.
The Irish Times
9
We were like the flowers and the grass and the blackberry and blackthorn.
A Tramp's Sketches
10
She still carried the blackthorn from which most of the blossoms had fallen.
Love and Mr. Lewisham
11
The first snowy gleam upon the blackthorn did not escape me.
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
12
At the time there were blackthorn trees in the burial ground.
Ghosts
13
The sloe, which is the blackthorn, comes still earlier and has fewer leaves.
Penelope's Irish Experiences
14
Once upon a time an old man introduced me to a blackthorn bush.
The Irish Times
15
Why, the tree is as bare as a blackthorn in February!
The Junior Classics, Volume 6: Old-Fashioned Tales
16
Lilacs may seduce your senses the blackthorn seems to rest keep in our history.
The Irish Times
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