HAWTHORN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does hawthorn mean? 

• HAWTHORN (noun)
  The noun HAWTHORN has 1 sense:

1. a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus

  Familiarity information: HAWTHORN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HAWTHORN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

haw; hawthorn

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

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

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "hawthorn"):

Crataegus apiifolia; Crataegus marshallii; parsley-leaved thorn; parsley haw (southern United States hawthorn with pinnately lobed leaves)

Crataegus biltmoreana; scarlet haw (common shrub or small tree of the eastern United States having few thorns and white flowers in corymbs followed by bright orange-red berries)

blackthorn; Crataegus calpodendron; Crataegus tomentosa; pear haw; pear hawthorn (erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries)

cockspur hawthorn; cockspur thorn; Crataegus crus-galli (eastern United States hawthorn with long straight thorns)

Crataegus aestivalis; mayhaw; summer haw (hawthorn of southern United States bearing a juicy, acidic, scarlet fruit that is often used in jellies or preserves)

Crataegus laevigata; Crataegus oxycantha; English hawthorn; may; whitethorn (thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America)

Crataegus monogyna; English hawthorn (European hawthorn having deeply cleft leaves and bright red fruits; widely cultivated in many varieties and often grown as impenetrable hedges; established as an escape in eastern North America)

Crataegus coccinea mollis; Crataegus mollis; downy haw; red haw (American red-fruited hawthorn with stems and leaves densely covered with short woolly hairs)

Crataegus oxyacantha; evergreen thorn (evergreen hawthorn of southeastern Europe)

Crataegus coccinea; Crataegus pedicellata; red haw (American red-fruited hawthorn with dense corymbs of pink-red flowers)

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

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

 Context examples 

The fruit of the hawthorn tree or bush.

(Hawthorn fruit, NCI Dictionary)

If a breath of air stirred, it made no sound here; for there was not a holly, not an evergreen to rustle, and the stripped hawthorn and hazel bushes were as still as the white, worn stones which causewayed the middle of the path.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

With enchanting murmurs Daisy admired this aspect or that of the feudal silhouette against the sky, admired the gardens, the sparkling odor of jonquils and the frothy odor of hawthorn and plum blossoms and the pale gold odor of kiss-me-at-the-gate.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)