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# sloe

«sloe» in Mova's school dictionary: **a small, round, dark blue-black fruit of the blackthorn…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (a sloe, sloes)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A sloe is a small, round, dark blue-black fruit of the blackthorn bush, very sour when raw. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sloe/#m1)

2) The blackthorn bush itself is sometimes called a sloe. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sloe/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

Sloes grow wild in hedges in Britain and Ireland and ripen in autumn. People use them to make jam and sloe gin (a grown-up drink). In nature lessons, the blackthorn is one of the first hedges to flower white in spring. «Sloe-eyed» in old books means having dark, beautiful eyes.

### examples

- We found sloes in the hedge on our autumn walk. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sloe/#x1)
- Sloes are too sour to eat straight from the bush. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sloe/#x2)
- The blackthorn has white flowers in spring and sloes in autumn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sloe/#x3)
- Birds eat the sloes in winter. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sloe/#x4)
- Grandad makes sloe jelly every October. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sloe/#x5)
- The sloes looked like tiny dark plums. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sloe/#x6)
- "Now look at the sloe bush." [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sloe/#x7)

### note

Countable: one sloe, two sloes. Sounds the same as «slow» — a homophone; do not mix them up. Do not eat wild berries unless an adult says they are safe.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «sloe» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/S/sloe/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.