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plural hawthorns
Any of various shrubs and small trees of the genus Crataegus having small, apple-like fruits and thorny branches quotations examples
Proust, an author to whom Humboldt had introduced me and in whose work he gave me heavy instruction, said he was often attracted to people whose faces had something in them of a hawthorn hedge in bloom.
1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, page 59