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the shrub that fences whole nations in thorns and once warded off witches at the door
means A thorny shrub or small tree of the rose family, bearing white or pink blossoms in spring and small red fruits called haws, long used for hedging.
from From Old English hagaþorn, literally "hedge-thorn" — haga meaning hedge or enclosure (a cousin of "haw" and related to "hedge" itself) joined to þorn, the thorn it bristles with. The name simply describes its oldest job: a living, spiky fence packed thick enough to pen in cattle and keep out trespassers.
- folklore guard
- Branches hung above doors to repel evil spirits
- hedge king
- Backbone of Britain's thousands of miles of hedgerows
- heart medicine
- Berries studied for supporting cardiac function
- fairy tree
- Lone hawthorns were left uncut to avoid bad luck
- rose cousin
- Belongs to the same family as apples and roses
hawthorn suburb melbourne — suburb in victoria, australia, home to hawthorn hawks afl team since 1925
hawthorn species crataegus — over 1,000 species of thorny shrubs across northern hemisphere, especially crataegus monogyna in europe