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bullace

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bul⋅lace

  [bool-is]
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–noun
1. the damson.
2. the muscadine.
Origin:
1300–50; ME bolaz; akin to ML bolluca, F beloce
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bul·lace   (bŏŏl'ĭs)   
n.  See damson.

[Middle English bolas, from Anglo-Norman bullace, from Medieval Latin bolluca.]
dam·son   (dām'zən, -sən)   
n.   In both senses also called bullace, damson plum.

  1. A Eurasian plum tree (Prunus insititia) cultivated since ancient times for its edible fruit.

  2. The oval, bluish-black, juicy plum of this tree.


[Middle English damson, damacene, from Latin (prūnum) Damascēnum, (plum) of Damascus, from Damascēnus; see damascene.]
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