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prunellum

prunellum, 2 prunella [LL], ~us , blackthorn, sloe (Prunus spinosa); b (spec. as ~um agreste, ferum, or silvaticum). brumela, bellicum vel sla GlH B 531; quid ‥ manducas? pingue lardum ‥ nuces et pruna, ~a, et uvas Ælf. Bata 6 p. 97; agazea, i. sucus de †primella [l. prunella] nigra Gl. Laud. 25; pruna nigra ‥ ~a Gilb. I 19.1; succo ~arum Ib. V 221. 1; cibi et potus sicut ~i, parva pira infrigidata in nive, nespila Gad. 8v. 2; achacia, i. succus ~arum immaturarum SB 9; slo, frute, prunum ‥ ~um PP; 14‥ acasia est succus ~arum immaturarum, greneslane wose (Leechdoms III 345) OED s. v. sloe 1a; a sloe, spineolum, ~um Levins Manip. 154.  b in succo ~arum silvaticarum Adel. CA 5; accipe radicem spine ~e fere et filicem arboream Ib. 13; ~a nigra parva acetosa silvestria in campis creta in aceto vini ‥ optima sunt, et ponantur loco acacie, que est succus prunellorum Gad. 29v. 1; acacia, i. succus desiccatus ~arum agrestium immaturarum [v. l. ~orum immaturorum] Alph. 1.

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