Usually means: Thorny shrub, produces sloe berries.
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  1. blackthorn: Merriam-Webster
  2. blackthorn: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. blackthorn: Collins English Dictionary
  4. blackthorn: Vocabulary.com
  5. Blackthorn, blackthorn: Wordnik
  6. blackthorn: Wiktionary
  7. blackthorn: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. blackthorn: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  9. blackthorn: Infoplease Dictionary
  10. Blackthorn, blackthorn: Dictionary.com
  11. Blackthorn (American band), Blackthorn (Russian band), Blackthorn (cocktail), Blackthorn (comics), Blackthorn (disambiguation), Blackthorn (film), Blackthorn: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  12. Blackthorn: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  13. blackthorn: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  14. blackthorn: Rhymezone
  15. Blackthorn: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  16. blackthorn: FreeDictionary.org
  17. blackthorn: Mnemonic Dictionary
  18. blackthorn: TheFreeDictionary.com
  19. blackthorn: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

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  1. blackthorn: Encyclopedia

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▸ noun:  A large shrub or small tree, Prunus spinosa, that is native to Europe, western Asia, and north Africa. It has a dark bark and bears thorns.
▸ noun:  A stick or staff taken from this tree.
▸ noun:  A village and civil parish in Cherwell district, Oxfordshire, England (OS grid ref SP6219).

Similar:
sloe, crataegus calpodendron, crataegus tomentosa, pear haw, pear hawthorn, Prunus spinosa, thorn, whitethorn, buckthorn, thornbush, more...

Opposite:
whitethorn, hawthorn, maythorn

Types:
hawthorn, sloe, wild plum, wild cherry, wild service tree, wild crab apple, more...

Phrases:
blackthorn winter, fruits of the blackthorn, blackthorn berry, more...

Adjectives:
old, stout, irish, dark, thick, snowy, flat, surly, bare, little, beautiful

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Similar:
sloe, crataegus calpodendron, crataegus tomentosa, pear haw, pear hawthorn, Prunus spinosa, thorn, whitethorn, buckthorn, thornbush, more...

Opposite:
whitethorn, hawthorn, maythorn

Types:
hawthorn, sloe, wild plum, wild cherry, wild service tree, wild crab apple, more...

Phrases:
blackthorn winter, fruits of the blackthorn, blackthorn berry, more...

Adjectives:
old, stout, irish, dark, thick, snowy, flat, surly, bare, little, beautiful



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