crataegus oxyacantha

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   evergreen hawthorn of southeastern Europe

   Synonymsevergreen thorn

   Broaderhawthorn

Questions about crataegus oxyacantha

What does crataegus oxyacantha mean?

crataegus oxyacantha means "evergreen hawthorn of southeastern Europe".

What is another word for crataegus oxyacantha?

Close synonyms include evergreen thorn. 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 crataegus oxyacantha a common word?

crataegus oxyacantha is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.