blackthorn
noun
black·thorn
ˈblak-ˌthȯrn 
: a European spiny plum (Prunus spinosa) with hard wood and small white flowers
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An archaeological excavation in Cambridgeshire has revealed a sprig of blackthorn, believed to be a hedge remnant, dating from around 2000 B.C. Management of hedges for agriculture continued under various invading cultures: first the Romans, then the Saxons.
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Kieran Dodds; Text By Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2020
Hedges, mostly hawthorn and blackthorn, are a distinctive feature of the British countryside.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2020
Thorny scrub — hawthorn, blackthorn, dog rose and bramble — punched through fields that, only a few years earlier, were maize and barley as far as the eye could see.
—Isabella Tree, Time, 3 Oct. 2019
Kieran Dodds; Text By Peter Ross, Smithsonian Magazine, 22 Oct. 2020
Hedges, mostly hawthorn and blackthorn, are a distinctive feature of the British countryside.
—Sam Knight, The New Yorker, 10 Feb. 2020
Thorny scrub — hawthorn, blackthorn, dog rose and bramble — punched through fields that, only a few years earlier, were maize and barley as far as the eye could see.
—Isabella Tree, Time, 3 Oct. 2019
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blackthorn
noun
black·thorn
-ˌthȯrn
: a European spiny plum with hard wood and small white flowers
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