different between bullace vs bullae

English

Etymology

From Middle English bolas, bolace, from Anglo-Norman and Old French beloce, buloce (“sloe”), from Vulgar Latin *bullucea, from Late Latin bulluca (“kind of small fruit”); of Celtic/Gaulish origin, akin to Celtiberian *bull?c?, from Proto-Celtic *bull?k?, ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *b?eHw- (“to swell, puff”), itself imitative. Possibly influenced by Latin galla (“oak apple”) with metathesis of the consonants.

See also Spanish bugalla (“oak apple”), Portuguese bugalho, and (the distantly related) Latin bucca.

Noun

bullace (plural bullaces)

1. A small European plum (Prunus domestica subsp. insititia).

   Synonym: damson

   • 1930, Harold Webber Freeman, Down in the Valley (page 48)

     If he ate bullace tart and bullace pie for a week, he would hardly empty the smallest of the baskets; and then they would begin to go bad. Nothing remained but to give them away, but to whom?

2. The bully tree.

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English

Noun

bullae

1. plural of bulla

Latin

Noun

bullae

1. nominative plural of bulla
2. genitive singular of bulla
3. dative singular of bulla
4. vocative plural of bulla