hawthorn
IPA: hˈɔθɔrn
noun
- Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like fruits and thorny branches
- A surname.
- A borough in Clarion County, Pennsylvania, United States.
- An inner suburb of Melbourne, in the City of Boroondara, Victoria, Australia.
- A suburb of Adelaide, in the City of Mitcham, South Australia.
- A village and civil parish in County Durham, England (OS grid ref NZ4145).
- A hamlet in Four Marks parish, East Hampshire district, Hampshire, England (OS grid ref SU6733).
- A suburban area in Pontypridd community, Rhondda Cynon Taf county borough, Wales (OS grid ref ST0987).
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Examples of "hawthorn" in Sentences
- I planted the hawthorn by myself.
- Some people think that hawthorn is sacred.
- School property was a whole row of hawthorn trees.
- These were grafted onto common hawthorn rootstock.
- Hawthorn trees tend to be underutilized in the home landscape.
- The hawthorn story holds as originally written in the article.
- The hawthorn is a part of natural English life -- country life.
- Hawthorne was advertised as the town between the city and the sea.
- Dozens of firms moved to Hawthorne to acquire Northrop subcontracts.
- The Wrights named the property after the hawthorn trees found on the property.
- - This eve found plenty of berries called hawthorn on the stream where we have encamped.
- Hold off on pruning trees and shrubs that flower in early spring, such as Indian hawthorn.
- When I last looked at it, the hawthorn was a couple of feet tall and looked more like a bush than a baby tree.
- I shall never see the word hawthorn in poetry again without the image of the snowy but far from chilling canopy rising before me.
- The skylark and the ivy appear among their scenic properties, and in the best of them, _Woods in Winter_, it is the English "hawthorn" and not any
- The hawthorn was the special wood used for fire-burial in Germany; hence the figurative poetical expression which would make Hagen a synonym for death.
- We're big on sea-buckthorn berries here in Estonia, and I thought they're also called hawthorn berries, but yours look slightly too large for the ones I mean...
- Part of the remains of a railway line that once ran from Market Harborough to Melton Mowbray, it is now covered in hawthorn bushes and bisected every now and then by the abutments of bridges.