Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See damson.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A species of plum, Prunus insititia, a native of Asia Minor and southern Europe, but now naturalized and cultivated further north. It differs from the common plum, P. domestica, chiefly in its spiny branches. The fruit is used like damsons.
- n. The popular name of Melicocca bijuga, a common West Indian tree, producing a green egg-shaped fruit with a pleasant vinous and aromatic flavor.
- n. In the United States, the muscadine grape, Vitis vulpina.
Wiktionary
- n. A small European plum (Prunus communis, var. insitita).
- n. The bully tree.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A small European plum (Prunus communis, var. insitita). See plum.
- n. The bully tree.
WordNet 3.0
- n. small wild or half-domesticated Eurasian plum bearing small ovoid fruit in clusters
Etymologies
- Middle English bolas, bolace, from Old French beloce; of Celtic origin. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English bolas, from Anglo-Norman bullace, from Medieval Latin bolluca. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“-- Formerly the sloe, _P. spinosa_, was thought to be the parent of all our plums; but now this honour is very commonly accorded to _P. insititia_ or the bullace, which is found wild in the Caucasus and N. - Western India, and is naturalised in”
The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication, Vol. I.
“At the outside of the orchard, damson, bullace, and tall plum trees had been planted.”
“Most of the other hedges are a mix of hazel, maple and ash, with here and there a holly, crab apple, bullace or an oak, and an under-blush of dogwood, the hips of wild roses or the exquisite little pink berries of the spindle tree.”
“The finger bones had pointed to avatars, and it seemed to me the avatars had sown plants that I might find them now, and harvest what was needed: shiny evergreen leaves of the holm oak, barberries, five-leaf root, bullace branches, and tender feverfew leaves that had lingered into winter.”
“Rice milk, and hasty Stewed prunes, and Raisins.pudding. baked bullace.”
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel
“The intermediate links of this connexion are the bullace, muscle, damacene, &c., of all which there are many varieties.”
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 10, No. 276, October 6, 1827
“These, and the mulberry, are the most common; next are the bullace and damson.”
Journals of Travels in Assam, Burma, Bhootan, Afghanistan and the Neighbouring Countries
“I mind Mrs Bosenna well," said Captain Cai, rising as the barber unwrapped him; "a smallish well-featured body, with eyes like bullace plums.”
“The bullace ideal is in the individual bullace tree.”
What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular
“The bullace ideal is realisable (under favourable conditions) by each individual bullace tree, -- but the plum ideal is not.”
What Is and What Might Be A Study of Education in General and Elementary Education in Particular
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bullace’.
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Interesting words
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phrontistery - b
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Grapes
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
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Desserts of Random Palavery
Another of my Random Palavery lists, still an eclectic listing of terms that catch my eye and ear. It can't be helped. I am, (as a former partner phrased it) a word-bird.
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Exotic Tastes
Interesting words related to food, ingredients, dishes, cookery, cuisines and so on. Exotic in this case is entirely subjective, with funkelberries on top.
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Tweets
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hernesheir "wild plum" in the Yorkshire dialect. Jun 26, 2009