hawthorn

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a thorny shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus, bearing clusters of white or pink flowers and small red fruits

   A hawthorn beside the lane was covered with white blossom.

From Middle English hawthorn and Old English hagathorn, equivalent to haw (originally "hedge" and later its fruit) + thorn. Hawthorns were commonly planted as dense, thorny boundary hedges.

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