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sloe-bush

sloe-bush is the alternative form of sloebush.

Meaning of sloebush

Noun

sloebush (plural sloebushes)

  1. The blackthorn.
    • The hedges, in their tangle of sweetbriar and sloebush and bramble, which fringe the well-kept highways and leafy lanes, lead past sleepy little towns to scattered groups of cottages, -- splashes and dots of red amidst festoons of green, -- some on hilly ground where the square flint-church tower...1894, Edward Clodd, Concerning a Pilgrimage to the Grave of Edward FitzGerald, page 8

Forms of sloe-bush

pluralsloe-bushes

Questions about sloe-bush

What is sloe-bush the alternative form of?
Sloe-bush is the alternative form of sloebush.

Words near sloe-bush in the dictionary

  1. sloe bushes
  2. sloe gin
  3. sloe gins
  4. sloe plum
  5. sloe plums
  6. sloe-bush
  7. sloe-bushes
  8. sloe-eyed
  9. sloebush
  10. sloebushes
  11. sloelike

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