Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A rosaceous genus of trees and shrubs, of about 30 species, natives of northern temperate regions, and about equally divided between North America and the old world.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, much used for ornamental purposes.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Any plant of the genus
Crataegus , thehawthorns .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun thorny shrubs and small trees: hawthorn; thorn; thorn apple
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Examples
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If I had so sweet a place, I would plant brambles, briers, blackthorn, furze, crataegus, every kind of spinous growth, inside my gates, and never let anybody lop them.
Mary Anerley Richard Doddridge 2004
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In another study of serum lipids, Cao Tiemi treated 124 patients with Ehuang Jiangzhi Tablet zedoaria, polygonatum, acorus, rhubarb, bupleurum, and crataegus for one month, and compared the effects with a control group of 37 people who received the drug inositol nicotinate.
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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In another study of serum lipids, Cao Tiemi treated 124 patients with Ehuang Jiangzhi Tablet zedoaria, polygonatum, acorus, rhubarb, bupleurum, and crataegus for one month, and compared the effects with a control group of 37 people who received the drug inositol nicotinate.
The Best Alternative Medicine Dr. Kenneth R. Pelletier 2000
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LowFlyingMule > ... or tazed you crataegus > like it would have stopped the candy chant
The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path #7 1991
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Someone once threatened to tase me (not schazzy) for saying "candy" repeatedly for 40 miles. crataegus > They shoulda stopped.
The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path #7 1991
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LowFlyingMule > lol crataegus > well, usually, he's driving, and he smacks me for saying "candy" over and over again. crataegus > and over ... and over ...
The Watcher: The New Zealand Voice of the Left Hand Path #7 1991
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If I had so sweet a place, I would plant brambles, briers, blackthorn, furze, crataegus, every kind of spinous growth, inside my gates, and never let anybody lop them.
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Those terminating in 'us,' though often of feminine words, as the central Arbor, will indicate either real masculine strength (quereus, laurus), or conditions of dominant majesty (cedrus), of stubbornness and enduring force (crataegus), or of peasant-like commonalty and hardship
Proserpina, Volume 1 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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Even the botanists have given them a great variety of names, as _pyrus, mespilus, aronia, crataegus_, and _amelanchier_.
The Young Voyageurs Boy Hunters in the North Mayne Reid 1850
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LowFlyingMule gotcha crataegus i just went outside for a smoke. i feel like i was teabagged by satan. beaglebot Mmm. .sulphur sacking
slumry commented on the word crataegus
a genus of small trees in the rose family
August 1, 2007