different between hawthorn vs mayblossom

English

Etymology

From Middle English hawthorn, from Old English hagaþorn, hæguþorn, from Proto-Germanic *haguþurnuz, equalling haga (“enclosure, hedge”) + þorn (“thorn”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h??.???n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?h?.???n/

Noun

hawthorn (plural hawthorns)

1. Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like fruits and thorny branches
   • 1975, Saul Bellow, Humboldt's Gift [Avon ed., 1976, p. 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 Cratageus): albaspine, may, maythorn, may tree, quickthorn, whitethorn

Derived terms

• hawthorny, hawthorn berry

Related terms

• haw, mayblossom, mayflower

Translations

References

• Crataegus on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Crataegus on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• Hanworth

Middle English

Alternative forms

• hauþorne, haweþorn, hawthern, hawethorn, hawthorun, hawþrone, hawthorne, hauthorne, haw-thron, haue-thorne, hau? þorne, ha?þorne, hauþorn, hawethorne, ha? þorn, haw?þorn, hawe-þorn, hawe þorn

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?hau?(?)??rn/, /?hau?(?)?r?n/

Noun

hawthorn (plural hawthornes)

1. 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.

English

Wikispecies

Alternative forms

• May blossom

Etymology

may +? blossom

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?me??bl?s?m/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?me??bl?s?m/

Noun

mayblossom (plural mayblossoms)

1. The flower of the hawthorn, Crataegus, especially the common hawthorn, Crataegus monogyna.

Synonyms

• common hawthorn, hawthorn, may, May blossom, maythorn, quickthorn