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.

  1. inherited from *haguþorn
  2. inherited from hagaþorn
  3. inherited from hawthorn

Definitions

  1. 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.
  2. A surname.

  3. Numerous places

    Numerous places:

The neighborhood

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