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.

noun. A genus of small, hardy trees, including the hawthorn, much used for ornamental purposes.

noun. Any plant of the genus Crataegus, the hawthorns.

noun. thorny shrubs and small trees: hawthorn; thorn; thorn apple

"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."

rosid dicot genus  

austerer  bratty  brownish-green  ch  coruscating