damson in English

noun
1
a small purple-black plumlike fruit.
European-type plums include the prunes and damsons : ‘Italian’ and ‘Stanley’ are two of the most famous.
2
the small deciduous tree that bears the damson fruit, probably derived from the bullace.
The reserve contains the remains of an apple and damson orchard.

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1. Care for Langley Bullace Damson

2. To make Bullace (or damson) cheese, use 1.5kg of fully ripe fruit

3. Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "Bullace"): damson plum; damson plum tree; Prunus domestica insititia (plum tree long cultivated for its edible fruit)

4. At the outside of the orchard, damson, Bullace, and tall plum trees had been planted

5. Bullaces are also suitable for most cooked plum and damson recipes which allow for plenty of sugar

6. 16 It has a lovely old orchard full of damson trees, a paddock with goats and rare sheep and a sunny terrace.

7. Bullace: 1 n small wild or half-domesticated Eurasian plum bearing small ovoid fruit in clusters Synonyms: Prunus insititia Types: Prunus domestica insititia , damson plum , damson plum tree plum tree long cultivated for its edible fruit Type of: plum , plum tree any of several trees producing edible oval fruit having a smooth skin and a

8. SHROPSHIRE PRUNE DAMSON This is a small plumlike fruit, measuring only a single centimetre long and wide, and is thought to be a hybrid of Bullace (wild plum)

9. There are a few varieties but the most often seen in British hedgerows is the black Bullace – a round dark blue fruit, smaller than a damson and larger than a sloe.

10. The Bullace is a variety of plum.It bears edible fruit similar to those of the damson, and like the damson is considered to be a strain of the insititia subspecies of Prunus domestica.Although the term has regionally been applied to several different kinds of "wild plum" found in the United Kingdom, it is usually taken to refer to varieties with a round shape, as opposed to the oval damsons.

11. A cup of tea is one thing, a hit of sloe gin or damson vodka may also warm the cockles, but the Bullshot gives you everything: a warm drink with a good hit of booze, a meaty finish and a dash of chilli, perfect for a day out with the gun

12. I was making some bullace and apple jam (recipe for Bullace Jam is HERE – but the Bullaces (wild damson-like fruit) were not as numerous or as large and juicy as usual so I had a feeling that the 4½ lbs lbs would make nothing like the 10 x 1lb pots I hoped for.

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