bullace

bullace (BULL-is) - n., a wild or semi-domesticated Eurasian plum (Prunus insititia or Prunus domestica insititia) with small fruits growing in clusters that is identified with and distinguished from the damson; another name for some New World muscadine grapes (genus Vitis).


And just to add to the species confusion, in Old French, the ancestor word beloce meant sloe, yet another variety of plum. Before that it was Latin bolluca, of origin unknown but possibly Gaulish origin.

---L.