pear hawthorn

What does pear hawthorn mean?

pear hawthorn means "erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries".

What is another word for pear hawthorn?

Close synonyms include blackthorn, pear haw, Crataegus calpodendron, Crataegus tomentosa. 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 pear hawthorn a common word?

pear hawthorn 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.

Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for pear hawthorn come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.