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Thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries
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whitethorn
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Whitethorn is a historic home located at Blacksburg , Montgomery County, Virginia . It was built about 1855, and is a two-story, "L"-shaped, five bay by three bay, brick dwelling with a shallow hipped roof in the Italian Villa style. It has Greek Revival ...
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n. thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America [syn: English hawthorn , may , Crataegus laevigata , Crataegus oxycantha ]
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Whitethorn \White"thorn`\, n. (Bot.) The hawthorn.
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n. 1 ''Crataegus monogyna'', a hawthorn species native to Europe, northwest Africa and western Asi 2 (taxlink Bursaria spinosa species noshow=1), a small Australian shru 3 (taxlink Vachellia constricta species noshow=1), formerly (taxlink Acacia constricta ...
Usage examples of whitethorn.
Across this, through thickets of whitethorn, manzanita, alder, and bay he limped along, following deer trails.
The hedge, like the parterre, was badly overgrown or, where not overgrown, either uprooted or chopped downa hopeless tangle of hornbeam, whitethorn, privet and holly.
Tell me, can I, without too much difficulty, reach Kimbolton from Whitethorn?
Since the bouts of Hebear and Hairyman the cornflowers have been staying at Ballymun, the duskrose has choosed out Goatstown's hedges, twolips have pressed togatherthem by sweet Rush, townland of twinedlights, the whitethorn and the redthorn have fairygeyed the mayvalleys of Knockmaroon, and, though for rings round them, during a chiliad of perihelygangs, the Formoreans have brittled the tooath of the Danes and the Oxman has been pestered by the Firebugs and the Joynts have thrown up jerrybuilding to the Kevanses and Little on the Green is childsfather to the City (Year!