SCARLET HAW

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does scarlet haw mean? 

• SCARLET HAW (noun)
  The noun SCARLET HAW has 1 sense:

1. common shrub or small tree of the eastern United States having few thorns and white flowers in corymbs followed by bright orange-red berries

  Familiarity information: SCARLET HAW used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SCARLET HAW (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Common shrub or small tree of the eastern United States having few thorns and white flowers in corymbs followed by bright orange-red berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Crataegus biltmoreana; scarlet haw

Hypernyms ("scarlet haw" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("scarlet haw" is a member of...):

Crataegus; genus Crataegus (thorny shrubs and small trees: hawthorn; thorn; thorn apple)