blackthorn
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black·thorn
(blăk'thôrn') 
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A thorny deciduous Eurasian shrub (Prunus spinosa) having white flowers and small, bluish-black, plumlike fruits used chiefly for flavoring alcoholic beverages such as sloe gin. Also called sloe.
n.
A thorny deciduous Eurasian shrub (Prunus spinosa) having white flowers and small, bluish-black, plumlike fruits used chiefly for flavoring alcoholic beverages such as sloe gin. Also called sloe.
Oxford Dictionary of Celtic Mythology:
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blackthorn
This thorny shrub (prunus spinosa) was thought to provide protection against ghosts in Ireland (cf. Modern Irish draighean) and has long been popular in lightweight walking-sticks. It should not be cut on 11 May or 11 November.
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blackthorn
blackthorn or sloe, low, spreading, thorny bush or small tree (Prunus spinosa) of the plum genus of the family Rosaceae (rose family), having black bark, white flowers, and deep blue fruits, usually rather acrid and not much larger than peas. Native to the Mediterranean area, the blackthorn is cultivated for hedges, its limbs are used in Ireland for canes and cudgels, and the juice of the berries is used in making brandy, sloe gin, and preserves and as a diluent of port. One of the hawthorns is sometimes called blackthorn. Blackthorn is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Rosales, family Rosaceae.
Oxford Dictionary of British Place Names:
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Blackthorn
Oxfordshire Blaketorn (1190). ‘(Place at) the blackthorn or sloe-tree’. OE *blæc-thorn.
| Blackstaff, Blackskull, Blackrod | |
| Blacktoft, Blackwater, Blackwatertown |
Wiley Dictionary of Flavors:
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Sloe Berries (Blackthorn) (Prunus spinosa L.)
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