sloebushes

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