Definitions for sloe

sloe sloe

Spelling: [sloh]
IPA: /sloʊ/

Sloe is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 4 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 5 points.

You can make 34 anagrams from letters in sloe (elos).

Definitions for sloe

noun

  1. the small, sour, blackish fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, of the rose family.
  2. the shrub itself.
  3. any of various other plants of the genus Prunus, as a shrub or small tree, P. alleghaniensis, bearing dark-purple fruit.

Origin of sloe

before 900; Middle English slo, Old English slā(h); cognate with German Schlehe, Dutch slee

Examples for sloe

What hand had planted the rare exotic adjacent to the hawthorn and the sloe?

The name signifies in Gaelic the church of the sloe or wild plum-tree.

They can squeeze bordeaux out of the sloe, and draw champagne from an apple.

The effect of a couple of large glasses of sloe gin was quickly apparent.

It feeds on hawthorn chiefly, but sometimes on sloe, plum, etc.

The manufacture of sloe gin is as simple as that of cherry brandy.

Nature, in inventing the wild grape, has been as generous as in her gift of the sloe.

The entire plant is used for much the same purposes as the sloe.

She flashed her teeth at him as she came up, sloe eyes flirting.

It feeds in April and May on hawthorn, sloe, crab, and apple.

Word Value for sloe
Scrable

4

Words with friends

5

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