hawthorn

See also Hawthorne

English

Wikipedia

Crataegus laevigata

Etymology

From Old English hagaþorn, hæguþorn, from haga (“enclosure, hedge”) + þorn (“thorn”)

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA: /ˈhɔː.θɔːn/
• (US) IPA: /ˈhɑ.θɔɹn/

Noun

hawthorn (plural hawthorns)

1. Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like fruits and thorny branches

Synonyms

• (a Cratageus): albaspine, may

Derived terms

• hawthorny

Translations

type of shrub

Armenian: սզնի (hy) (szni), ալոճենի (hy) (aloč̣eni) Catalan: arç blanc (ca) m. Chinese: Mandarin: 山楂 (cmn) (shānzhā) Croatian: glog (hr) Dutch: meidoorn m., meidoren m. Esperanto: kratago (eo) Finnish: orapihlaja (fi) French: aubépine (fr) f. German: Weißdorn (de) m., arch.: Hagedorn m. Hungarian: galagonya (hu) Irish: sceach (ga) f.

Italian: biancospino (it) m. Japanese: サンザシ (ja) (sanzashi) (山査子 (ja)) Macedonian: глог (mk) (glog) m. Polish: głóg (pl) m. Romanian: păducel (ro) Russian: боярышник (ru) m. Slovak: hloh (sk) Slovene: glog (sl) Spanish: espino (es) Swedish: hagtorn Vietnamese: sơn tra (vi)

See also

• Hawthorn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cratageus on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Cratageus