Crossword clues for whitethorn
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Whitethorn \White"thorn`\, n. (Bot.) The hawthorn.
Wiktionary
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 species noshow=1), (vern whitethorn acacia pedia=1), a shrub in the family Fabaceae. 4 (taxlink Ceanothus leucodermis species noshow=1), (vern chaparral whitethorn pedia=1), a shrub in the family Rhamnaceae.
WordNet
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]
Wikipedia
Whitethorn may refer to:
Whitethorn is a novel by Australian author Bryce Courtenay. It follows a white child in South Africa and was published in 2005.
The novel follows a boy in South Africa. The boy is instantly an outsider for his English name, Fitzsaxby, and is bullied and harassed as a different side of racism shown by the Boers, who have the knowledge that twenty-six thousand women and children died at the hands of the English in the Boer Wars.
Category:2005 novels Category:Novels by Bryce Courtenay Category:Novels set in South Africa Category:Novels about racism
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 style exterior and interior decorative elements. It features a wide, elegant, one-story, five-bay front porch supported by square columns of the Tuscan order. Also on the property is a contributing two-story brick office building.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989.
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!