Crossword clues for blackthorn
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Blackthorn \Black"thorn`\, n. (Bot.)
A spreading thorny shrub or small tree ( Prunus spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are called sloes; the sloe.
A species of Crat[ae]gus or hawthorn ( Crat[ae]gus tomentosa). Both are used for hedges.
Wiktionary
n. A large shrub or small tree, ''Prunus spinosa'', that is native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa. It has a dark bark and bears thorns.
WordNet
n. a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits [syn: sloe, Prunus spinosa]
erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries [syn: pear haw, pear hawthorn, Crataegus calpodendron, Crataegus tomentosa]
Wikipedia
Blackthorn is a species of Prunus native to Europe, western Asia, and locally in northwest Africa.
Other plant species also named 'blackthorn' are:
- Australian blackthorn ( Bursaria spinosa), a small shrub in the family Pittosporaceae
- common sea-buckthorn ( Hippophae rhamnoides) of Eurasia
- blackthorn or black-thorn acacia ( Senegalia mellifera) of the Afrotropics and Arabia
Blackthorn may also refer to:
- Backthorn (musician), Norwegian metal musician
- Blackthorn, Oxfordshire, England
- Blackthorn (film), a 2011 Western film directed by Spanish director Mateo Gil
- Blackthorn railway station, Oxfordshire, England
- Blackthorn Cider, a processed commercial cider
- Blackthorn Golf Course, a golf course in Indiana
- Lord Blackthorn, a recurring character in the Ultima game series
- USCGC Blackthorn (WLB-291), a United States Coast Guard ship
- Blackthorn Trust, English Charity, that provides medical care, specialist therapies and rehabilitation through work placements
- Blackthorn, a gothic metal band from Russia (see Metal Archieves)
- Blackthorn City, a town in the second generation Pokémon games.
Blackthorn (Aline Pagrovna) is a fictional character, a superhero appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is usually depicted as a member of the Strikeforce: Morituri. The character was created by Peter B. Gillis and Brent Anderson.
Blackthorn is a 2011 Western film directed by Mateo Gil and starring Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega, and Stephen Rea. Written by Miguel Barros, the film is a fictional account of an aged Butch Cassidy living under the assumed name James Blackthorn in a secluded village in Bolivia 20 years after his disappearance in 1908. Blackthorn was filmed on location in La Paz, Potosí, and Uyuni in Bolivia. Initially released on iTunes on September 2, 2011, the film was released theatrically in the United States on October 7, 2011.
Usage examples of "blackthorn".
In seconds there was nothing left of the Blackthorn but a blackened frame in an inferno of flames.
But the thought of turning over a blackened corpse and finding her rings on the charred fingers was still too much to bear for the moment And so he sat where he was, watching what remained of the Blackthorn steam and smolder, and waited for Investigator Topaz to wake up.
Blackthorn has taken a sudden interest in Epicureanism, for I shall not believe it.
That skunk, Nevell Blackthorn, had been a burr in his side since they were kids.
She could picture Nevell Blackthorn all huffy and trying to throw his weight around.
There are hundreds of them: smooth black Fred Astaire canes and rough chewed alpenstocks, blackthorns and quarterstaffs, cudgels and swagger sticks, bamboo and ironwood, maple and slippery elm, canes from Tangier, Maine, Zurich, Panama City, Quebec, Togoland, the Dakotas and Borneo, resting in notched compartments that resemble arms racks in an armory.
His horse almost baulked at the hedge, not because of the height of the blackthorn, but because the approach to the obstacle was inches deep in mud.
He seized his walking stick -- not a blackthorn, for that was broken, but a knobbly ashplant -- and he might have struck Norm with it if the expert in guidance had not darted into the corridor, to escape down the iron staircase so rapidly that it rumbled like thunder.
Blackthorn Inn was a blazing wreck, its upper floor an inferno, its roof gone, swept away by the fire and smoke belching up into the night sky.
He sheathed his sword with a reasonably steady hand and turned to go back into the Blackthorn Inn, to the room he had there, and then he stopped as remembered Hazel and Silver together.
If he could just reach the Blackthorn Inn, he might yet be able to show the invading forces some unexpected and really nasty surprises.
He had no way of knowing he would never return to the Blackthorn Inn again.
Thieves Quarter, in the Blackthorn Inn, representatives of the esper union were fighting to keep track of what was happening.
She stopped hearing the screams of people dying in the streets around the Blackthorn Inn, as the disrupter beams stabbed viciously down, killing everything that moved, spreading fire and destruction.
Cat decided it was very definitely time he was getting back to the Blackthorn, and safety.