hawthorn
noun/ˈhɔː.θɔːn/UK/ˈhɔ.θɔɹn/US/ˈhɔ.θoɹn//ˈhɒ.θɒn/CA
Etymology
From Middle English hawthorn, from Old English hagaþorn, hæguþorn, from Proto-West Germanic *haguþorn; equivalent to haw (“hedge, enclosure”) + thorn.
- inherited from *haguþorn✻
- inherited from hagaþorn
- inherited from hawthorn
Definitions
Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like…
Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like fruits and thorny branches
- Proust, an author to whom Humboldt had introduced me and in whose work he gave me heavy instruction, said he was often attracted to people whose faces had something in them of a hawthorn hedge in bloom.
A surname.
Numerous places
Numerous places:
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for hawthorn. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA