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Princeton's WordNet

  1. whitethorn, English hawthorn, may, Crataegus laevigata, Crataegus oxycanthanoun

    thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America

Wiktionary

  1. whitethornnoun

    Crataegus monogyna, a hawthorn species native to Europe, northwest Africa and western Asia.

  2. whitethornnoun

    Bursaria spinosa, a small Australian shrub.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Whitethornnoun

    A species of thorn.

    As little as a whitethorn and a pear-tree seem of kin, a cion of the latter will sometimes prosper well, being grafted upon a stock of the former. Boyle.

ChatGPT

  1. whitethorn

    Whithorn refers to a type of flowering plant in the rose family, typically known as a hawthorn. It is a shrub or small tree characterized by its white blossoms and thorny branches. The term is also used to refer to the town of Whithorn in Scotland.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Whitethornnoun

    the hawthorn

Wikidata

  1. Whitethorn

    Whitethorn is an unincorporated community in Humboldt County, California. It is located 9.5 miles southwest of Garberville, at an elevation of 1024 feet, population 817. Whitethorn shares a zip code with Shelter Cove, California. It is located along California's Lost Coast. The ZIP Code is 95589. The Thorn post office opened in 1888, closed in 1923, reopened in 1951, and changed its name to Whitethorn in 1961. The Whitethorn post office is located near Thorn Junction on the road between Shelter Cove and Whitethorn. Some remote areas in northern Mendocino County are also served by this post office and thus have Whitethorn addresses. Whitethorn Elementary School is located in Whitethorn and is part of the Southern Humboldt Unified School District. Students from the Whitethorn area attend South Fork High School in Miranda. Whale Gulch Elementary and Whale Gulch High School are about 3 miles southeast from Whitethorn. They have Whitethorn addresses, but are located in Mendocino County and are part of the Legget Valley Unified School District. About 1.5 miles south of central Whitethorn is Redwoods Monastery, a community of Cistercian nuns.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of whitethorn in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of whitethorn in Pythagorean Numerology is: 5

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