hawthorn

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English

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Wikipedia

Crataegus laevigata (Midland hawthorn)

Etymology

From Middle English hawthorn, from Old English hagaþorn, hæguþorn, from Proto-West Germanic *haguþorn; equivalent to haw (“hedge, enclosure”) +‎ thorn.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔː.θɔːn/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔ.θɔɹn/

• Audio (US):

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Noun

hawthorn (plural hawthorns)

1. Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like fruits and thorny branches
   • 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 59:

     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.

Synonyms

• (a Crataegus): albaspine, may, maythorn, may tree, quickthorn, whitethorn

Derived terms

• Alabama hawthorn (Crataegus alabamensis, Crataegus vulsa)
• black hawthorn (Crataegus douglasii)
• Chinese hawthorn (Crataegus cuneata, Crataegus pinnatifida)
• cockspur hawthorn (Crataegus crus-galli)
• common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)
• downy hawthorn (Crataegus coccinea, C. mollis, etc.)
• English hawthorn (Crataegus oxycantha, C. monogyna)
• glossy hawthorn
• green hawthorn (Crataegus viridis)
• hawthorn berry
• hawthorn fly (Bibio marci)
• hawthorn maple (Acer crataegufolium)
• hawthorn rust (Gymnosporangium globosum)
• hawthorn shield bug (Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale)
• hawthorn tree
• hawthorny
• Hong Kong hawthorn (Raphiolepis indica)
• India hawthorn, Indian hawthorn (Raphiolepis indica)
• Japanese hawthorn (Crataegus cuneata, Raphiolepis umbellata)
• May hawthorn (Crataegus aestivalis)
• Mexican hawthorn (Crataegus mexicana)
• Midland hawthorn (Crataegus laevigata)
• Mississippi hawthorn (Crataegus ancisa)
• mountain hawthorn (Crataegus pinnatifida)
• one-seed hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)
• oriental hawthorn (Crataegus orientalis)
• parsley hawthorn, parsley-leaved hawthorn (Crataegus marshallii)
• pear hawthorn (Crataegus tomentosa etc.)
• plumleaf hawthorn (Crataegus persimilis)
• red hawthorn (Crataegus mollis)
• single-seed hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)
• Washington hawthorn (Crataegus phaenopyrum)
• water hawthorn (Aponogeton distachyos)
• woodland hawthorn (Crataegus laevigata)
• yeddo hawthorn (Raphiolepis umbellata)

 

Related terms

• haw, mayblossom, mayflower

Translations

shrub or tree of the genus Crataegus

Albanian: murriz (sq) m Arabic: زُعْرُور m (zuʕrūr), زَعْرُور m (zaʕrūr) Armenian: սզնի (hy) (szni), ալոճենի (aločeni), սինձ (hy) (sinj) Azerbaijani: yemişan (az), alıç Bashkir: энәлек (enəlek), еҙәй (yeźəy), ҡамыраш (qamıraş), дунала (dunala) Basque: elorriondo Breton: spern-gwenn m Bulgarian: глог (bg) m (glog) Catalan: albespí m, arç blanc m Chinese: Mandarin: 山楂 (zh) (shānzhā) Cornish: hogan m, spernen wynn f Czech: hloh (cs) m Danish: tjørn c Dutch: meidoorn (nl) m, haagdoorn (nl) m Esperanto: kratago Finnish: orapihlaja (fi) French: aubépine (fr) f Galician: estripeiro (gl) m, espiño albar m, espiño cambrón m, estripo (gl) m Georgian: კუნელი (ḳuneli) German: Weißdorn (de) m, Hagedorn (de) m Greek: κράταιγος (el) m (krátaigos) Hungarian: galagonya (hu) Irish: sceach gheal f Italian: biancospino (it) m Japanese: 山査子 (ja) (sanzashi), サンザシ (ja) (sanzashi) Kazakh: долана (dolana) Khakas: тоо (too) Korean: 산사나무 (ko) (sansanamu), 아가위나무 (agawinamu), 동배나무 (dongbaenamu), 뚱광나무 (ttunggwangnamu), 아그배나무 (ko) (ageubaenamu), 이광나무 (igwangnamu), 애광나무 (aegwangnamu), 야광나무 (yagwangnamu), 질구나무 (jilgunamu), 질배나무 (jilbaenamu), 찔광나무 (jjilgwangnamu), 찔구배나무 (jjilgubaenamu) Kurdish: Central Kurdish: گۆیِژ (goyij) Northern Kurdish: guhîj (ku) f Low German: German Low German: Wittdoorn m, Mehldorn Macedonian: глог m (glog) Maltese: żagħrun m Manchu: ᡠᠮᡦᡠ (umpu) Mazanderani: ولیک (valik) Middle English: hawthorn, hawe tre Norman: blianche êpîngne f Ottoman Turkish: آق دیكن (ak diken) Pannonian Rusyn: ґалаґоня f (galagonja), глог m (hloh), гложина f (hložina) Persian: نلک (fa) (nelk) Polish: głóg (pl) m Portuguese: espinheiro branco m Romanian: păducel (ro) m, albaspină (ro) f Romansch: chagliastretg m Russian: боя́рышник (ru) m (bojáryšnik) Scottish Gaelic: sgìtheach m Serbo-Croatian: glog (sh) Slovak: hloh (sk) Slovene: glog (sl) Sorbian: Lower Sorbian: głog m Spanish: espino albar (es) m, espino blanco (es) m, majuelo (es) m Swedish: hagtorn (sv) Tarifit: admam f Tatar: дүләнә (tt) (dülänä), камыр агачы (tt) (qamır ağaçı) Thai: ซานจา Turkish: alıç (tr) Turkmen: ýemşen Ukrainian: глід (hlid) Uyghur: دولانا (dolana) Uzbek: doʻlana (uz) Vietnamese: sơn tra Volapük: krateg (vo), redakrateg Welsh: draenen wen f Yakut: долохуна (doloquna), долохоно (doloqono)

References

• Crataegus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Crataegus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Hanworth

Middle English

Alternative forms

• haȝ þorn, haȝþorne, haue-thorne, hauȝ þorne, hauthorne, hauþorn, hauþorne, hawethorn, hawethorne, haweþorn, hawe-þorn, hawe þorn, hawȝþorn, hawthern, hawthorne, hawthorun, haw-thron, hawþrone

Etymology

Inherited from Old English hagaþorn, hæguþorn, from Proto-West Germanic *haguþorn; equivalent to hawe +‎ thorn.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈhau̯(ə)ˌθɔrn/, /ˈhau̯(ə)ˌθoːrn/, /ˈhau̯(ə)ˌθrɔn/

Noun

hawthorn (plural hawthornes)

1. A hawthorn or similar tree or shrub.

Synonyms

• hawe tre

Descendants

• English: hawthorn
• Scots: hawthorn

References

• “hau(e-thorn, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2018-09-12.