DOWNY HAW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does downy haw mean? 

• DOWNY HAW (noun)
  The noun DOWNY HAW has 1 sense:

1. American red-fruited hawthorn with stems and leaves densely covered with short woolly hairs

  Familiarity information: DOWNY HAW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DOWNY HAW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

American red-fruited hawthorn with stems and leaves densely covered with short woolly hairs

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Crataegus coccinea mollis; Crataegus mollis; downy haw; red haw

Hypernyms ("downy haw" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("downy haw" is a member of...):

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