bullace (bulas)

[Early mod. E. also bull is, bulloes; prob. OF. baloce, beloce, belloche (F. dial. beloce ), bullace, bellocier, bullace-tree. Cf. E. dial. (Cornwall) bullum, the fruit of the bullace-tree.] 1. A species of plum, Prunus in sit it i a, a native of Asia Minor and southern Europe, but now naturalized and cultivated further north. It differs from the common plum, P. domestic a, chiefly in its spiny branches. The fruit is used like damsons. 2. The popular name of Melicocca bijuga, a common West Indian tree, producing a green egg-shaped fruit with a pleasant vinous and aromatic flavor.-3. In the United States, the muscadine grape, Vitis vulpina.