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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. Slocum
  2. Slocumb
  3. Slocumbs
  4. Slocums
  5. sloe
  6. sloe bush
  7. sloe bushes
  8. sloe gin
  9. sloe gins
  10. sloe plum
  11. sloe plums

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