Definitions for hawthorns

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hawthorns haw·thorn

Spelling: [haw-thawrn]

IPA: /ˈhɔˌθɔrn/

Hawthorns is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 17 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 375 anagrams from letters in hawthorns (ahhnorstw).

Definitions for hawthorns

noun

1. any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Crataegus, of the rose family, typically a small tree with stiff thorns, certain North American species of which have white or pink blossoms and bright-colored fruits and are cultivated in hedges.

Origin of hawthorns

before 900; Middle English; Old English haguthorn, cognate with Middle Dutch hagedorn, Middle High German hagendorn, Old Norse hagthorn. See haw³, Examples for hawthorns

When Denis and Susan had reached the hawthorn, they both knelt down.

Young George had a vision of green fields and of hawthorn hedges.

The bottom of hawthorn hedges may be conveniently thickened, by putting in some plants of common sweet briar, or barberry.

There were hedges covered with hawthorn, and the scent of it reached us as we rushed past.

"Send for the weasel, then," said a missel-thrush, also perching in the hawthorn.

The hawthorn's white, the sun is bright, And blue the cloud-less sky; .

The elms are in tenderest leaf, the hawthorn bursting into flower.

A remblai, also topped with hawthorn, lies a little to the north of this road.

I suppose there is no question but that all nice people like hawthorn blossom.

"Quite true-oo," repeated the dove, perching in the hawthorn.