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The fruit of the blackthorn (Prunus spinosa), a small ovate or globose drupe of a black or dark-purple colour and sharp sour taste.
Any of various other dark-coloured edible berries; a plant that bears such berries; esp. (a) (Scottish and English regional (northern)) the…