sloebush
sloebush noun: the blackthorn.
Noun
sloebush (plural sloebushes)
- 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
- Now raspberries grow above me, On a rocking twig of a sloebush a robin chirps.1995, Walter Grünzweig, Constructing the German Walt Whitman, →ISBN, page 98
Forms of sloebush
| plural | sloebushes |
|---|---|
| alternative form | sloe bush |
| alternative form | sloe-bush |
Origin of sloebush
From sloe + bush.
Questions about sloebush
- What does sloebush mean?
- Sloebush means the blackthorn.
- What part of speech is sloebush?
- Sloebush is a noun.
- What is the plural of sloebush?
- The plural of sloebush is sloebushes.
Words near sloebush in the dictionary
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