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Meanings of hawthorn in English

Portuguese
pilriteiro

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

        pilriteiro
        Usage of hawthorn in English
        1
        It was in the spring-time; and the hawthorn blossoms scented the air.
        The Lerouge Case
        2
        The words swept over the crowd like the scent of the hawthorn.
        I.N.R.I.: A prisoner's Story of the Cross
        3
        Called WS 1442, it is found in the most popular hawthorn products.
        The Irish Times
        4
        The soft wind blew among the trees and over the hawthorn hedge.
        The Open Air
        5
        However, in and of themselves, hawthorn berries are nontoxic and very safe.
        Prescription alternatives: hundreds of safe, natural, prescripti...
        6
        She walked over to the hawthorn bush they'd planted together last year.
        Darkest Mercy
        7
        The birds flirted up and down the hawthorn bushes and furze brakes.
        The Far Horizon
        8
        She let go of Donia's hand and walked over to the hawthorn.
        Wicked lovely
        9
        Along the top of the closely-cut hawthorn a dot of light moved.
        The Lilac Sunbonnet: A Love Story
        10
        The hawthorn overhangs it, the fern grows by, red mice rustle past.
        The Pageant of Summer
        11
        I ken whaur's a snawy hawthorn aboon the burn in Swanston Dell.
        Greyfriars Bobby
        12
        The hawthorn outside my workroom window tries hard to be a tree.
        The Irish Times
        13
        Over on the Foster estate at Cambridge there was a genuine hawthorn.
        A Little Girl in Old Boston
        14
        Young George had a vision of green fields and of hawthorn hedges.
        Mistress Anne
        15
        Under a thicket of hawthorn Vivien has built him a magical prison.
        Literary and Philosophical Essays: French, German and Italian
        16
        According to an evening paper hawthorn buds have been plucked at Hornsey.
        Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, November 10, 1920
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        Portuguese
        pilriteiro
        Hawthorn through the time
        Hawthorn across language varieties
        Ireland
        Common
        United Kingdom
        Common
        United States of America
        Less common