Blackthorn Synonyms

blăkthôrn
A thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. sloe
  2. prunus-spinosa
Erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries
(Noun)
Synonyms:
  1. pear haw
  2. pear hawthorn
  3. Crataegus calpodendron
  4. Crataegus tomentosa

Words Related to Blackthorn

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Blackthorn Sentence Examples

  • A third species, the common sloe or blackthorn, P. spinosa, has stout spines; its flowers expand before the leaves; and its fruit is very rough to the taste, in which particulars it differs from the two preceding.

  • The scrub understorey includes guelder rose, blackthorn and bramble.

  • The blackthorn, wild fig, trembling aspen, and other ' crossed ' wood are avoided.

  • Along the edge of the wood elder, blackthorn, holly and gorse grow, sometimes draped in old man's beard.

  • It includes blackthorn, hawthorn, dog rose and other plants which should offer a rich habitat to hedgerow birds such as song thrushes.

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