: a European spiny plum (Prunus spinosa) with hard wood and small white flowers
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebHedges, mostly hawthorn and blackthorn, are a distinctive feature of the British countryside. Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2020 Thorny scrub — hawthorn, blackthorn, dog rose and bramble — punched through fields that, only a few years earlier, were maize and barley as far as the eye could see. Isabella Tree, Time, 3 Oct. 2019