blackthorn

Other forms of blackthorn

plural

blackthorns·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about blackthorn

What does blackthorn mean?

blackthorn means "a thorny Eurasian bush with plumlike fruits". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in blackthorn?

blackthorn has 2 syllables: black-thorn. The stress falls on "black".

What is another word for blackthorn?

Close synonyms include sloe, Prunus spinosa, pear haw, pear hawthorn, Crataegus calpodendron. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is blackthorn a common word?

blackthorn is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.