Definition of Evergreen thorn

1. Noun. Evergreen hawthorn of southeastern Europe.

Exact synonyms: Crataegus Oxyacantha
Generic synonyms: Haw, Hawthorn

Lexicographical Neighbors of Evergreen Thorn

everfalling
everflowing
everglade
evergoing
evergreen
evergreen beech
evergreen bittersweet
evergreen blueberry
evergreen cherry
evergreen huckleberry
evergreen magnolia
evergreen millet
evergreen oak
evergreen plant
evergreen thorn (current term)
evergreen winterberry
evergreen wood fern
evergreened
evergreening
evergreens
evergrowing
everie
everlast
everlastable
everlasting
everlasting(a)
everlasting flower
everlasting flowers
everlasting pea

Literary usage of Evergreen thorn

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Arboretum Et Fruticetum Britannicum: Or, The Trees and Shrubs of Britain by John Claudius Loudon (1838)
"The glaucous-katw/ evergreen Thorn. Identification. Wall. Cat, 673. ; Lodd. Cat, ed. 1830, and 1836. Engravings. Figt. 562, 563. Spec. Char., arc. ..."

2. Practical Landscape Gardening: The Importance of Careful Planning, Locating by Robert B. Cridland (1920)
"... Honeysuckle Hercules' Club White Pine Silver Thorn evergreen thorn Shining Sumach Bush Honeysuckle Shining Sumach evergreen thorn June Berry Deciduous ..."

3. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1868)
"... and a partial shade from southern suns is requisite to enable it to retain its foliage. evergreen thorn—Pyracantha.—The fiery or evergreen thorn— ..."

4. Andorra Nurseries: Wm. Warner Harper, Proprietor, Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia by William Warner Harper (1903)
"evergreen thorn. Though sometimes attaining good height, this is really in the shrub ... Leland's evergreen thorn. Evergreen and similar in growth to C. ..."

5. American Gardener's Calendar: Adapted to the Climates and Seasons of the by Bernard M'Mahon (1806)
"Pyracantha or Evergreen-Thorn Hedges. ... or evergreen-thorn, will make a tolerable good hedge ; it is propagated by seed, which will not vegetate till the ..."

6. The American Gardener's Calendar: Adapted to the Climate and Seasons of the by Bernard M'Mahon, John Jay Smith (1857)
"... or evergreen thorn, will make a tolerably good hedge; it is propagated by seed, which will not vegetate till the second spring after ripening, ..."

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