hawthorn

From Middle English hawthorn, from Old English hagaþorn, hæguþorn, from Proto-Germanic *haguþurnuz, equalling haga (“enclosure, hedge”) + þorn (“thorn”).

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

hawthorn (plural hawthorns)

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

• (a Cratageus): albaspine, may

• hawthorny

• hawthorn on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Cratageus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

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

Inherited from Old English hagaþorn, hæguþorn, from Proto-Germanic *haguþurnuz.

• IPA^(key): /ˈhau̯(ə)θɔrn/, /ˈhau̯(ə)θrɔn/

hawthorn (plural hawthornes)

1. A hawthorn or similar tree or shrub.

• hawe tre

• English: hawthorn
• Scots: hawthorn

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