Associations to the word «Hawthorn»

Wiktionary

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

Dictionary definition

HAWTHORN, noun. A spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus.

Wise words

In words, as fashions, the same rule will hold; Alike fantastic, if too new, or old: Be not the first by whom the new are tried, Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.
Alexander Pope