hawthorns
hawthorns is the plural of hawthorn.
Meaning of hawthorn
Noun
hawthorn (countable and uncountable, plural hawthorns)
- Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like fruits and thorny branches
- 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.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 59
- Synonyms:
- albaspine, may, maythorn, may tree, quickthorn, whitethorn
Proper noun capitalized: Hawthorns
Hawthorns
- plural of Hawthorn
Phrases with hawthorns
Questions about hawthorns
- What is hawthorns the plural of?
- Hawthorns is the plural of hawthorn.
- What part of speech is hawthorns?
- Hawthorns is a proper noun.
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