# hawthorn
## English
### Etymology

From Middle English hawthorn, from Old English hagaþorn, hæguþorn, from Proto-West Germanic *haguþorn; equivalent to haw (“hedge, enclosure”) +‎ thorn.

### Pronunciation

* (UK) IPA: /ˈhɔː.θɔːn/
* (US) IPA: /ˈhɔ.θɔɹn/
* Audio (US):(file)

### Noun

hawthorn (plural hawthorns)
* Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like fruits and thorny branches
** 1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 59: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.

#### Synonyms

* (a Crataegus): albaspine, may, maythorn, may tree, quickthorn, whitethorn

#### Derived terms

* Alabama hawthorn (Crataegus alabamensis, Crataegus vulsa)
* black hawthorn (Crataegus douglasii)
* Chinese hawthorn (Crataegus cuneata, Crataegus pinnatifida)
* cockspur hawthorn (Crataegus crus-galli)
* common hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)
* downy hawthorn (Crataegus coccinea, C. mollis, etc.)
* English hawthorn (Crataegus oxycantha, C. monogyna)
* glossy hawthorn
* green hawthorn (Crataegus viridis)
* hawthorn berry
* hawthorn fly (Bibio marci)
* hawthorn maple (Acer crataegufolium)
* hawthorn rust (Gymnosporangium globosum)
* hawthorn shield bug (Acanthosoma haemorrhoidale)
* hawthorn tree
* hawthorny
* Hong Kong hawthorn (Raphiolepis indica)
* India hawthorn, Indian hawthorn (Raphiolepis indica)
* Japanese hawthorn (Crataegus cuneata, Raphiolepis umbellata)
* May hawthorn (Crataegus aestivalis)
* Mexican hawthorn (Crataegus mexicana)
* Midland hawthorn (Crataegus laevigata)
* Mississippi hawthorn (Crataegus ancisa)
* mountain hawthorn (Crataegus pinnatifida)
* one-seed hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)
* oriental hawthorn (Crataegus orientalis)
* parsley hawthorn, parsley-leaved hawthorn (Crataegus marshallii)
* pear hawthorn (Crataegus tomentosa etc.)
* plumleaf hawthorn (Crataegus persimilis)
* red hawthorn (Crataegus mollis)
* single-seed hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna)
* Washington hawthorn (Crataegus phaenopyrum)
* water hawthorn (Aponogeton distachyos)
* woodland hawthorn (Crataegus laevigata)
* yeddo hawthorn (Raphiolepis umbellata)

#### Related terms

* haw, mayblossom, mayflower

#### Translations
### References

* Crataegus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
* Crataegus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

### Anagrams

* Hanworth

## Middle English
### Alternative forms

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

### Etymology

Inherited from Old English hagaþorn, hæguþorn, from Proto-West Germanic *haguþorn; equivalent to hawe +‎ thorn.

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˈhau̯(ə)ˌθɔrn/, /ˈhau̯(ə)ˌθoːrn/, /ˈhau̯(ə)ˌθrɔn/

### Noun

hawthorn (plural hawthornes)
* A hawthorn or similar tree or shrub.

#### Synonyms

* hawe tre

#### Descendants

* English: hawthorn
* Scots: hawthorn

#### References

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