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haw·thorn H0091100 (hô′thôrn′)n. Any of various usually thorny trees or shrubs of the genus Crataegus of the rose family, having clusters of white or pinkish flowers and reddish fruits containing a few one-seeded nutlets. [Middle English, from Old English hagathorn : haga, haw + thorn, thorn.]hawthorn (ˈhɔːˌθɔːn) n (Plants) any of various thorny trees or shrubs of the N temperate rosaceous genus Crataegus, esp C. oxyacantha, having white or pink flowers and reddish fruits (haws). Also called (in Britain): may, may tree or mayflower [Old English haguthorn from haga hedge + thorn thorn; related to Old Norse hagthorn, Middle High German hagendorn, Dutch haagdoorn]haw•thorn (ˈhɔˌθɔrn) n. any of various small trees of the genus Crataegus, rose family, with stiff thorns and bright-colored fruit, often cultivated as hedges. [before 900; Middle English; Old English haguthorn, c. Middle Dutch hagedorn, Old Norse hagthorn. See haw3, thorn] haw′thorn′y, adj. ThesaurusNoun | 1. | hawthorn - a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus CrataegushawCrataegus, genus Crataegus - thorny shrubs and small trees: hawthorn; thorn; thorn appleCrataegus apiifolia, Crataegus marshallii, parsley haw, parsley-leaved thorn - southern United States hawthorn with pinnately lobed leavesCrataegus biltmoreana, scarlet haw - common shrub or small tree of the eastern United States having few thorns and white flowers in corymbs followed by bright orange-red berriesCrataegus calpodendron, Crataegus tomentosa, pear haw, pear hawthorn, blackthorn - erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berriescockspur hawthorn, cockspur thorn, Crataegus crus-galli - eastern United States hawthorn with long straight thornsCrataegus aestivalis, mayhaw, summer haw - hawthorn of southern United States bearing a juicy, acidic, scarlet fruit that is often used in jellies or preservesCrataegus laevigata, Crataegus oxycantha, whitethorn, English hawthorn, may - 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 AmericaCrataegus monogyna, English hawthorn - European hawthorn having deeply cleft leaves and bright red fruits; widely cultivated in many varieties and often grown as impenetrable hedges; established as an escape in eastern North AmericaCrataegus coccinea mollis, Crataegus mollis, downy haw, red haw - American red-fruited hawthorn with stems and leaves densely covered with short woolly hairsCrataegus oxyacantha, evergreen thorn - evergreen hawthorn of southeastern EuropeCrataegus coccinea, Crataegus pedicellata, red haw - American red-fruited hawthorn with dense corymbs of pink-red flowersbush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems | Translationshawthorn (ˈhoːθoːn) noun a small tree with thorns and white or pink blossom. 山楂樹 山楂hawthorn
hawthorn, any species of the genus Crataegus of the family Rosaceae (roserose, common name for some members of the Rosaceae, a large family of herbs, shrubs, and trees distributed over most of the earth, and for plants of the genus Rosa, the true roses. ..... Click the link for more information. family), shrubs and trees widely distributed in north temperate climates and especially common in E North America. They usually have thorns, clusters of white (rarely rose-colored) flowers in the spring, and colorful orange, red, or yellow (rarely blue or black) fruits in the fall. The fruits, called haws, resemble tiny apples; some are used in jellies. English hawthorns are of two species, C. oxyacantha and C. monogyna; the common American hawthorn, with bright red haws, is C. coccinea, called scarlet, or red, haw (as are other similar species). Hawthorns are cultivated for ornament and, especially in England, for hedges (haw also means hedge). Hawthorn wood is very hard and is used for such small items as tool handles. In England, hawthorn flowers are associated with May Day, and the hawthorn (called also may, thorn, haw, whitethorn, and thorn apple) has long been used as a symbol of spring in English poetry. There are many legends surrounding the hawthorn, e.g., that of the Glastonbury thorn (see GlastonburyGlastonbury , town (1991 pop. 6,751), Somerset, SW England. It has a leather industry, but Glastonbury is famous for its religious associations and many legends. One legend tells that St. Joseph of Arimathea founded the first Christian church in England there. ..... Click the link for more information. , England). A hawthorn is the state flower of Missouri. The black haw is a viburnum (see honeysucklehoneysuckle, common name for some members of the Caprifoliaceae, a family comprised mostly of vines and shrubs of the Northern Hemisphere, especially abundant in E Asia and E North America. ..... Click the link for more information. ). Hawthorn is classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta , division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem). ..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, order Rosales, family Rosaceae. Bibliography See study by B. Vaughn (2015). hawthorn hawthornThe THORNS are the giveaway. There are over 100 very different varieties. Flowers are usually white, 5 petals, with toothy-edged leaves. Berries ripen in fall. No poisonous lookalikes. You can eat the berries straight off the tree, but don’t eat the seeds. Hawthorn is for the HEART. Antioxidant and bioflavonoid rich, good for cardiovascular system, gentle but powerful, contains numerous phytochemicals that make heart more efficient pump, increasing output of blood from the heart, and decreasing resistance from blood vessels, therefore making it great for both high and low blood pressure, angina, cardiovascular circulation. Hawthorn berry binds to, coats and protects your heart cells. Reduces cardiac arrhythmia (irregular heartbeat) and tachycardia (racing heartbeat). Hawthorn is also good for memory, diarrhea, dysentery, boosts appetite, used for stress, anxiety, nervous palpitations, insomnia, kidney stones, night sweats, menopause. Recognizable by its inch-long thorns all over the branches- sometimes up to 4 inches long! (10cm). Berries start green and end up like bright red rose hips, even tart tasting like rose hips. High in vitamin C, iron and lots of wonderful nutrients. Do not think though, that simply taking hawthorn is going to heal your heart. You need to stop doing the things that caused the problem in the first place. Read the book “Heal Yourself 101” for learning true health. Christopher Lee, as Dracula, suffers a fatal encounter with a hawthorn bush in the film The Satanic Rites of Dracula. Hawthorn (pop culture)The hawthorn (Crataegus oxyacantha), a small tree of the rose family, was prevalent throughout southern Europe. The plant is also known as the whitethorn and is typical of a number of related thorn bushes (wild mountain rose, blackthorn) that are substituted for hawthorn in different locations. In ancient times, hawthorn was used both as a symbol of hope and as a charm against witchcraft and sorcery. As such, it was often placed in the cradles of infants. As a protection against witchcraft, people might build a barrier of hawthorn around their house or doorway. The Greeks placed pieces of hawthorn in the casements of houses to prevent the entrance of witches. In Bohemia, hawthorn was put on the thresholds of the cow houses, also to prevent witches from entering. The anti-witchcraft use of hawthorn easily transferred to the closely related vampire. The hawthorn united two ancient practices. First, to protect one’s home or another place, people commonly erected a symbolic barrier such as a hawthorn bush. While unable to stop or even slow down the usual physical forces, hawthorn was believed to be capable of blocking intruding supernatural forces or spirits. Second, hawthorn was thought by many to have a sacred quality as it was one of several plants designated as the bush from which Christ’s crown of thorns was made. Hawthorn branches were variously placed on the outside of a coffin, in the corpse’s sock, or on top of the corpse. In Bosnia, a particular twist to the hawthorn legend developed. When visiting the home where a person had just died, women placed a small piece of hawthorn behind their headcloth, and then threw the twig away on their way home. If the deceased person was a vampire, it would focus its attention upon the hawthorn rather than follow the woman home. According to the Bram Stoker character, Dr. Abraham Van Helsing, a branch of wild rose on the coffin would keep a vampire confined inside. Stoker probably learned of this practice from Emily Gerard. Her book, Land Beyond the Forest (a major source for Dracula [1897]), stated that the people of Transylvania often “lay the thorny branch of a wild rose bush across the body to prevent it from leaving the coffin.” In spite of Stoker’s use of it, the thorn did not attain a prominent role in modern literary and movie vampire lore. The hawthorn made a brief appearance at the end of Hammer Films’s The Satanic Rites of Dracula, in which Christopher Lee as Dracula was destroyed by being trapped in a hawthorn bush. In addition to the plant’s thorn and bush applications, among the southern Slavs, the wood of the hawthorn or blackthorn was to be used in the stake that impaled the vampire’s corpse. It might be hammered through the head, heart, or stomach. Sources: Gerard, Emily. Land Beyond the Forest. 2 vols. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1888.Lehner, Ernst, and Johanna Lehner. Folklore and Symbolism of Flowers, Plants and Trees. New York: Tudor Publishing Company, 1960. 128 pp.Perkowski, Jan L. The Darkling: A Treatise on Slavic Vampirism. Columbus, OH: Slavica Publishers, 1989. 169 pp.Porteous, Alexander. Forest Folklore, Mythology, and Romance. London: George Allen & Unwin,1928. 319 pp. Rept. Detroit: Singing Tree Press, 1968. 314 pp.Summers, Montague. The Vampire in Europe. London: Routledge, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner, & Co., 1929. 329 pp.Held, Eric S. see: Vampire Fandom: United States Hawthorn (Crataegus), a genus of shrubs or, more rarely, low trees, of the Rosaceae family. The shoots as a rule have more or less well-developed thorns (transformed shortened shoots). The leaves range from whole to pinnately lobed and pinnately cut. The flowers are white, more rarely rosy to red, generally collected into cymes or corymb racemes. The ovary is depressed. The fruit (so-called stone apples or stones) are often spheroid, ovoid, or pear-shaped and are usually red, orange brown, or black. There are about 200 (by other criteria, more than 1,000) polymorphous varieties of hawthorn growing wild in the temperate regions of North America and Eurasia. There are some 50 varieties (plus close to 75 introduced varieties) in the USSR. The fruit of certain hawthorns is edible. The wood is suitable for small articles. Many hawthorns are decorative. Some of them easily survive pruning and are equipped with developed thorns, so that they are used as living fences. Liquid extract from the fruit or tincture from the blossoms of the thorny hawthorn and the blood-red hawthorn contain some organic acids and vitamins; these are taken for disorders in heart functions, vascular neuroses, hypertonic diseases, and others. REFERENCESDerev’ia i kustarniki SSSR, vol. 3. Moscow-Leningrad, 1954. Rusanov, F. N. “Introdutsirovannye boiaryshniki Botanicheskogo sada AN UzSSR.” In Dendrologia Uzbekistana, vol. 1. Tashkent, 1965.hawthornof Missouri. [Flower Symbolism: Golenpaul, 635]See: Flower, State
hawthornsymbol of optimism. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 174; Kunz, 328]See: Hopehawthorn any of various thorny trees or shrubs of the N temperate rosaceous genus Crataegus, esp C. oxyacantha, having white or pink flowers and reddish fruits (haws) LegalSeeMayhawthorn
Synonyms for hawthornnoun a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus CrataegusSynonymsRelated Words- Crataegus
- genus Crataegus
- Crataegus apiifolia
- Crataegus marshallii
- parsley haw
- parsley-leaved thorn
- Crataegus biltmoreana
- scarlet haw
- Crataegus calpodendron
- Crataegus tomentosa
- pear haw
- pear hawthorn
- blackthorn
- cockspur hawthorn
- cockspur thorn
- Crataegus crus-galli
- Crataegus aestivalis
- mayhaw
- summer haw
- Crataegus laevigata
- Crataegus oxycantha
- whitethorn
- English hawthorn
- may
- Crataegus monogyna
- Crataegus coccinea mollis
- Crataegus mollis
- downy haw
- red haw
- Crataegus oxyacantha
- evergreen thorn
- Crataegus coccinea
- Crataegus pedicellata
- bush
- shrub
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