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Definition of Bullace
1. Noun. Small wild or half-domesticated Eurasian plum bearing small ovoid fruit in clusters.
Generic synonyms: Plum, Plum Tree
Specialized synonyms: Damson Plum, Damson Plum Tree, Prunus Domestica Insititia
Definition of Bullace
1. n. A small European plum (Prunus communis, var. insitita). See Plum.
Definition of Bullace
1. a purple plum [n -S]
Medical Definition of Bullace
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Bullace
Literary usage of Bullace
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1798)
"The more grateful white bullace differs from this only as the «.hite currant or
white elder differ from the common \\ild kinds of each. ..."
2. The Forest Trees of Britain by Charles Alexander Johns (1892)
"... the Wild Pear for instance, disappear under cultivation ; the variety of the
Blackthorn called the bullace- tree,1 is also entirely destitute ..."
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