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Definition of Pear hawthorn
1. Noun. Erect and almost thornless American hawthorn with somewhat pear-shaped berries.
Group relationships: Crataegus, Genus Crataegus
Generic synonyms: Haw, Hawthorn
Lexicographical Neighbors of Pear Hawthorn
Literary usage of Pear hawthorn
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Fairyland of Flowers: A Popular Illustrated Botany by Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick (1890)
"SCARLET - FRUITED HAWTHORN. — Smooth. Roundish, thin, cut, or toothed leaves on
slender stalks. A scarlet, oval fruit. pear hawthorn. —Downy when young. ..."
2. The Fairyland of Flowers: A Popular Illustrated Botany for the Home and School by Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick (1890)
"pear hawthorn. —Downy when young. Thick, oval, or wedge-ob-ovate leaves, narrowing
into a short foot-stalk. Large flowers, and large crimson or orange fruit ..."
3. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"pear hawthorn; Blackthorn hawthorn Deciduous shrub Woods, thickets and low meadows.
Crataegus coccinea L. sensu lato Red-fruited hawthorn Deciduous shrub ..."
4. Practical Forestry: A Treatise on the Propagation, Planting, and Cultivation by Andrew Samuel Fuller (1910)
"C. tomentosa, L.—Black or pear hawthorn.—Leaves soft, downy when young, becoming
smooth with age, three to five inches long, oval or obovate, ..."
5. Trees of the Northern United States: Their Study, Description and by Austin Craig Apgar (1892)
"Crataegus tomentosa, L. (BLACK OR pear hawthorn.) Leaves downy- pubescent on the
lower side (at least when young), thickish, rather large, ..."
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