hawthorn
pronunciation
How to pronounce hawthorn in British English:
UK [ˈhɔ:θɔ:n]
How to pronounce hawthorn in American English:
US [ˈhɔθɔrn]
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- Noun:
- a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus
Word Origin
- hawthorn
- hawthorn: [OE] The hawthorn appears to be etymologically the ‘hedgethorn’. Its first element, haw, which in Old English was haga, goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *khag-, which also produced English hedge and possibly haggard (German hagedorn, Dutch haagdoorn, and Swedish hagtorn share the same ancestry). The name of the tree’s fruit, haw [OE], is presumably either a back-formation from hawthorn, or an abbreviation of some lost term such as *hawberry ‘hedgeberry’. Hawfinch dates from the 17th century.=> haggard, hedge
- hawthorn (n.)
- Old English hagaþorn, earlier hæguþorn "hawthorn, white thorn," from obsolete haw "hedge or encompassing fence" (see haw (n.)) + thorn. A common Germanic compound: Middle Dutch hagedorn, German hagedorn, Swedish hagtorn, Old Norse hagþorn.
Example
- 1. Hawthorn is also recommended in cases of functional heart pain and mild arrhythmias .
- 2. Hawthorn : the leaves can be added to salads or cheese sandwiches , or just munched as you go along on a country walk .
- 3. Tip : pour 150 ml boiling water over one teaspoon of leaves and flowers of chopped hawthorn , let macerator runs for 5 to 10 minutes .
- 4. First , recent archaeological evidence suggests that chinese farmers concocted an alcoholic brew of rice , honey , and grape or hawthorn as early as 9000 years ago .
- 5. The wind blew the dust from the small white path on the rocks into the sea and tossed the blossoming hawthorn bushes and wallflowers that grow on the rocks .