hawthorn
Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like fruits and thorny branches
A kind of
- shrub
Kinds of hawthorn
- parsley-leaved thorn
- pear hawthorn
- may
- evergreen thorn
Word history
From Old English "hagaþorn".
Where this comes from
This definition is adapted from “hawthorn” on Wiktionary, by its contributors; related-word lists use Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0, based on Princeton WordNet), published under CC BY-SA 4.0. This page is published under the same licence.