Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See thorn.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) The hawthorn.

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  • noun Crataegus monogyna, a hawthorn species native to Europe, northwest Africa and western Asia.
  • noun Bursaria spinosa, a small Australian shrub.

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  • noun thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America

Etymologies

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white +‎ thorn

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Examples

  • We could climb over the low-growing hedges of lavender or box or rosemary, but every time he ducked under one of the high, clipped hedges planted in privet or briar or whitethorn, we had to go around.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • I wandered beside hedges of privet and whitethorn and between banks of rosemary and borders of lavender, inhaling their warm scents.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • I wandered beside hedges of privet and whitethorn and between banks of rosemary and borders of lavender, inhaling their warm scents.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • We could climb over the low-growing hedges of lavender or box or rosemary, but every time he ducked under one of the high, clipped hedges planted in privet or briar or whitethorn, we had to go around.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • We could climb over the low-growing hedges of lavender or box or rosemary, but every time he ducked under one of the high, clipped hedges planted in privet or briar or whitethorn, we had to go around.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • The whitethorn or the brown oak are made dearer things to me.

    Joshua Kryah reads “Where She Told Her Love” by John Clare 2008

  • We could climb over the low-growing hedges of lavender or box or rosemary, but every time he ducked under one of the high, clipped hedges planted in privet or briar or whitethorn, we had to go around.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • I wandered beside hedges of privet and whitethorn and between banks of rosemary and borders of lavender, inhaling their warm scents.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

  • The whitethorn or the brown oak are made dearer things to me.

    2008 » September 2008

  • I wandered beside hedges of privet and whitethorn and between banks of rosemary and borders of lavender, inhaling their warm scents.

    Secrets of the Tudor Court Kate Emerson 2010

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