hawthorn: [OE] The hawthorn appears to be etymologically the ‘hedgethorn’. Its first element, haw, which in Old English was haga, goes back to a prehistoric Germanic *khag-, which also produced English hedge and possibly haggard (German hagedorn, Dutch haagdoorn, and Swedish hagtorn share the same ancestry). The name of the tree’s fruit, haw [OE], is presumably either a back-formation from hawthorn, or an abbreviation of some lost term such as *hawberry ‘hedgeberry’. Hawfinch dates from the 17th century. => haggard, hedge
hawthorn (n.)
Old English hagaþorn, earlier hæguþorn "hawthorn, white thorn," from obsolete haw "hedge or encompassing fence" (see haw (n.)) + thorn. A common Germanic compound: Middle Dutch hagedorn, German hagedorn, Swedish hagtorn, Old Norse hagþorn.
实用例句
1. Much of the track had become overgrown with hawthorn.
小路上很多地方都长满了山楂树。
来自柯林斯例句
2. He hid the bicycle in the hawthorn hedge.
他把自行车藏在山楂树篱中。
来自辞典例句
3. Leaf-shoots were beginning to sprout on the hawthorn.
山楂树上开始长出叶芽。
来自辞典例句
4. Indeed, she had worn quite a path beneath the hawthorn.
