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# blackthorn

«blackthorn» in Mova's school dictionary: **A wild bush with black, sharp thorns and small sour dark…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (blackthorn, blackthorns)

### meaning for a pupil

A wild bush with black, sharp thorns and small sour dark berries called sloes. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackthorn/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a thorny hedge bush that grows in the countryside; in tales, a stick cut from its wood, and a tangle that is hard to push through.

### examples

- The sheep were hiding behind the blackthorn hedge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackthorn/#x1)
- Sloes grow on the blackthorn in autumn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackthorn/#x2)
- He cut a strong stick from the blackthorn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackthorn/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «blackthorn» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/blackthorn/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.