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BLACKTHORN

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries

Synonyms:

blackthorn; Crataegus calpodendron; Crataegus tomentosa; pear haw; pear hawthorn

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("blackthorn" is a kind of...):

haw; hawthorn (a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus)

Holonyms ("blackthorn" is a member of...):

Crataegus; genus Crataegus (thorny shrubs and small trees: hawthorn; thorn; thorn apple)

Sense 2

Meaning:

A thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits

Synonyms:

blackthorn; Prunus spinosa; sloe

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("blackthorn" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("blackthorn" is a member of...):

genus Prunus; Prunus (a genus of shrubs and trees of the family Rosaceae that is widely distributed in temperate regions)

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