pear hawthorn

Questions about pear hawthorn

What is another word for pear hawthorn?

It depends which pear hawthorn you mean. In the sense “erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries”, the synonyms are blackthorn, pear haw, Crataegus calpodendron, Crataegus tomentosa. Across all 1 sense there are 4 distinct synonyms, and they are not interchangeable with each other — this page lists them under the sense each one belongs to.

What is the opposite of pear hawthorn?

WordNet records no antonym for pear hawthorn. Antonymy in WordNet is a relation between specific word forms rather than between concepts, so it is recorded only where lexicographers judged the pairing direct. An absence here means none was recorded, not that none can be imagined.

Where do the synonyms for pear hawthorn come from?

From Princeton University's WordNet, a lexical database maintained by lexicographers since 1985. A synonym here means a word form that shares a synset with this word — a set of forms interchangeable in one recorded context. Nothing on this page is generated by a language model.

Other views of pear hawthorn

• Full entry for pear hawthornAll 1 sense, with examples, usage labels, syllables and pronunciation.
• Rhymes for pear hawthornWhether this word can be rhymed at all — it is not in the pronouncing dictionary.
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