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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English hawthorn, from Old English hagaþorn, hæguþorn, from Proto-West Germanic *haguþorn; equivalent to haw (“hedge, enclosure”) + thorn.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hawthorn (plural hawthorns)
- Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like fruits and thorny branches
- 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 59:
- Proust, an author to whom Humboldt had introduced me and in whose work he gave me heavy instruction, said he was often attracted to people whose faces had something in them of a hawthorn hedge in bloom.
Synonyms[edit]
- (a Crataegus): albaspine, may, maythorn, may tree, quickthorn, whitethorn
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Translations[edit]
shrub or tree of the genus Crataegus
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References[edit]
- Crataegus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Crataegus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
Anagrams[edit]
Middle English[edit]
Alternative forms[edit]
- haȝ þorn, haȝþorne, haue-thorne, hauȝ þorne, hauthorne, hauþorn, hauþorne, hawethorn, hawethorne, haweþorn, hawe-þorn, hawe þorn, hawȝþorn, hawthern, hawthorne, hawthorun, haw-thron, hawþrone
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Old English hagaþorn, hæguþorn, from Proto-West Germanic *haguþorn; equivalent to hawe + thorn.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
hawthorn (plural hawthornes)
- A hawthorn or similar tree or shrub.
Synonyms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
References[edit]
- “hau(e-thorn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-12.
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