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Definition of Fire thorn
1. Noun. Any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries.
Exact synonyms: Firethorn, Pyracanth, Pyracantha
Group relationships: Genus Pyracantha
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Group relationships: Genus Pyracantha
Generic synonyms: Bush, Shrub
Lexicographical Neighbors of Fire Thorn
Literary usage of Fire thorn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Field Book of American Trees and Shrubs: A Concise Description of the by Ferdinand Schuyler Mathews (1915)
"fire thorn "^ shrub 3-7 feet high with many slender Leaves small, ... The Fire
Thorn is a native of Europe, and has long been in cultivation in this country ..."
2. Outlines of botany by Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1835)
"The various kinds of hawthorn, such as the May or whitethorn, the scarlet-thorn,
the cockspur-thorn, the fire-thorn, &c. are all species of ..."
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