Blackthorn: alternatives and connections

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Blackthorn

A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.

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Bush 76% connected

A thicket, or place abounding in trees or shrubs; a wild forest.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Haw 76% connected

A hedge; an inclosed garden or yard.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Hawthorn 76% connected

A thorny shrub or tree (the Crataegus oxyacantha), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers, and a fruit called haw. It…

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Shrub 76% connected

A liquor composed of vegetable acid, especially lemon juice, and sugar, with spirit to preserve it.

oewn 2023 0% interchangeable

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Sloe 92% connected

A small, bitter, wild European plum, the fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa); also, the tree itself.

oewn 2023 68% interchangeable

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