Definition of "hawthorns" [hawthorns]

• Plural form of hawthorn. (noun)

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• "In the woods atop old hazels under a thinning canopy of ash, along the lime avenue where high branches spread into the crowns, in gardens where hawthorns overhang the unworked edges? here are the robins."
• "Ash trees in Sullens Wood are the latest to break into leaf, and hawthorns are already laden with may as the last cherry petals drift to the ground."
• "Cloud shadows scud across the splashy and drier ground where prehistoric circles, tumuli, cairns and reaves subside into the rough vegetation and where attention focuses on the few gnarled and wind-pruned hawthorns."