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# hawthorn

«hawthorn» in Mova's school dictionary: **A thorny bush or small tree with white or pink flowers in…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (hawthorns)

### meaning for a pupil

A thorny bush or small tree with white or pink flowers in spring and small red berries in autumn, often grown as a hedge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hawthorn/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in stories a garden or field has a hawthorn hedge; in the lessons it names a plant in the countryside

### examples

- The garden had a tall hawthorn hedge. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hawthorn/#x1)
- Be careful, the hawthorn has sharp thorns. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hawthorn/#x2)
- In May the hawthorn is covered in white flowers. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/H/hawthorn/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

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