sloe-bush

A form of sloebush — The blackthorn.

Meanings

nounsloe-bush (plural sloe-bushes)

plural sloe-bushes

  1. alternativeAlternative form of sloebush.

    Climbing trees was an accomplishment of Alexander's, but the sloe-bush seemed to him dense, prickly and not quite assailable.

    2015, H.E. Bates, Seven Tales and Alexander, →ISBN
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APA

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