CRATAEGUS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Crataegus mean? 

• CRATAEGUS (noun)
  The noun CRATAEGUS has 1 sense:

1. thorny shrubs and small trees: hawthorn; thorn; thorn apple

  Familiarity information: CRATAEGUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CRATAEGUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Thorny shrubs and small trees: hawthorn; thorn; thorn apple

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Crataegus; genus Crataegus

Hypernyms ("Crataegus" is a kind of...):

rosid dicot genus (a genus of dicotyledonous plants)

Meronyms (members of "Crataegus"):

haw; hawthorn (a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus)

Crataegus apiifolia; Crataegus marshallii; parsley-leaved thorn; parsley haw (southern United States hawthorn with pinnately lobed leaves)

Crataegus biltmoreana; scarlet haw (common shrub or small tree of the eastern United States having few thorns and white flowers in corymbs followed by bright orange-red berries)

blackthorn; Crataegus calpodendron; Crataegus tomentosa; pear haw; pear hawthorn (erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries)

cockspur hawthorn; cockspur thorn; Crataegus crus-galli (eastern United States hawthorn with long straight thorns)

Crataegus aestivalis; mayhaw; summer haw (hawthorn of southern United States bearing a juicy, acidic, scarlet fruit that is often used in jellies or preserves)

Crataegus laevigata; Crataegus oxycantha; English hawthorn; may; whitethorn (thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America)

Crataegus monogyna; English hawthorn (European hawthorn having deeply cleft leaves and bright red fruits; widely cultivated in many varieties and often grown as impenetrable hedges; established as an escape in eastern North America)

Crataegus coccinea mollis; Crataegus mollis; downy haw; red haw (American red-fruited hawthorn with stems and leaves densely covered with short woolly hairs)

Holonyms ("Crataegus" is a member of...):

family Rosaceae; Rosaceae; rose family (a large family of dicotyledonous plants of order Rosales; have alternate leaves and five-petaled flowers with numerous stamens)