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

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats