BLACKTHORN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does blackthorn mean? 

• BLACKTHORN (noun)
  The noun BLACKTHORN has 2 senses:

1. a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits

2. erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries

  Familiarity information: BLACKTHORN used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACKTHORN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

blackthorn; Prunus spinosa; sloe

Hypernyms ("blackthorn" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("blackthorn" is a member of...):

genus Prunus; Prunus (a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

blackthorn; Crataegus calpodendron; Crataegus tomentosa; pear haw; pear hawthorn

Hypernyms ("blackthorn" is a kind of...):

haw; hawthorn (a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus)

Holonyms ("blackthorn" is a member of...):

Crataegus; genus Crataegus (thorny shrubs and small trees: hawthorn; thorn; thorn apple)

 Context examples 

His two clenched hands were raised above his head, and a heavy, blackthorn stick lay across them.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He was dressed in nightshirt and trousers, with his favourite blackthorn cudgel in his hand.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)