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sloe

/sloh/US // sloʊ //UK // (sləʊ) //

芦荟,蘆薈,芦荟类,芦荟胶

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Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : the small, sour, blackish fruit of the blackthorn, Prunus spinosa, of the rose family.
    • : the shrub itself.
    • : any of various other plants of the genus Prunus, as a shrub or small tree, P. alleghaniensis, bearing dark-purple fruit.

Synonyms & Antonyms

as inblack
as inonyx

Examples

  • But hold your tongue for a while, and cast your eye along the valley, and watch the mist gathering on the furze and sloe trees.

  • Thus, at half-past ten, we find her officers drinking the toast of Deutschland unter Alles in sloe-gin.

  • Slender as a young willow, supple as an ash, eyes like the berries of the sloe-thorn.

  • The last red roseleaf had fluttered silently down; the last purple sloe had fallen from its sapless stem.

  • I looked, and sure enough he held it in his hand; and then I understood the flash of irony in the sloe-black eyes of him.