Adjacent Words
BULL, WILDBull-fight
Bull-head
bull-head plover
bull-headed
Bullace definitions
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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
BULL'ACE, n. The bully-tree, or Chrysophyllum, a plant of two species, natives of the West Indies.
1. The wild plum, a species of Prunus.
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)
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1: small wild or half-domesticated Eurasian plum bearing small ovoid fruit in clusters [syn: bullace, Prunus insititia]
Merriam Webster's
noun Etymology: Middle English bolace, from Anglo-French bulloce, from Medieval Latin bolluca Date: 14th century a European plum (Prunus domestica insititia) with small ovoid fruit in clusters
Oxford Reference Dictionary
n. a thorny shrub, Prunus insititia, bearing globular yellow or purple-black fruits, of which the damson is the cultivated form. Etymology: ME f. OF buloce, beloce
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
Bullace Bul"lace, n. [OE. bolas, bolace, OF. beloce; of Celtic origin; cf. Arm. bolos, polos, Gael. bulaistear.] (Bot.) (a) A small European plum (Prunus communis, var. insitita). See Plum. (b) The bully tree.
