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• haw tree — noun 1. obsolete : hawthorn 2. : whitebeam 3. : service tree 1b …   Useful english dictionary

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• Haw River, North Carolina — Infobox Settlement official name = Haw River, North Carolina settlement type = Town nickname = motto = imagesize = image caption = image mapsize = 250x200px map caption = Location of Haw River, North Carolina mapsize1 = map caption1 = subdivision …   Wikipedia

• haw — Hawthorn Haw thorn (h[add] th[^o]rn ), n. [AS. haga[thorn]orn, h[ae]g[thorn]orn. See {Haw} a hedge, and {Thorn}.] (Bot.) A thorny shrub or tree (the {Crat[ae]gus oxyacantha}), having deeply lobed, shining leaves, small, roselike, fragrant flowers …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• haw — hɔː n. fruit of the hawthorn tree or shrub v. make a stammering sound, hesitate while speaking interj. to the left! (command given to draft animals) …   English contemporary dictionary

• haw·thorn — /ˈhɑːˌθoɚn/ noun, pl thorns [count] : a type of bush or small tree with white or pink flowers and small red fruits …   Useful english dictionary

• The Haw Lantern — (1987) is a collection of poems written by Irish Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney. It has a theme of loss and deals with the death of his mother, who died in 1984. Here is an interpretation of some of the poems featured in the collection: The Haw… …   Wikipedia

• red haw — noun 1. American red fruited hawthorn with dense corymbs of pink red flowers • Syn: ↑Crataegus pedicellata, ↑Crataegus coccinea • Hypernyms: ↑hawthorn, ↑haw 2. American red fruited hawthorn with stems and leaves densely covered with short woolly… …   Useful english dictionary

• scarlet haw — noun common shrub or small tree of the eastern United States having few thorns and white flowers in corymbs followed by bright orange red berries • Syn: ↑Crataegus biltmoreana • Hypernyms: ↑hawthorn, ↑haw • Member Holonyms: ↑Crataegus, ↑genus… …   Useful english dictionary

• American smoke tree — chittamwood chittamwood n. 1. a shrubby tree of the U. S. Pacific coast ({Rhamnus purshianus} or {Rhamnus purshiana}), whose bark is the {cascara sagrada}, used as a mild cathartic or laxative. Syn: cascara, cascara buckthorn, bearberry, bearwood …   The Collaborative International Dictionary of English

• black haw — noun 1. deciduous tree of southeastern United States and Mexico • Syn: ↑false buckthorn, ↑chittamwood, ↑chittimwood, ↑shittimwood, ↑Bumelia lanuginosa • Hypernyms: ↑buckthorn 2. upright deciduous shrub hav …   Useful english dictionary