DOWNY HAW

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Meaning:

American red-fruited hawthorn with stems and leaves densely covered with short woolly hairs

Synonyms:

Crataegus coccinea mollis; Crataegus mollis; downy haw; red haw

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("downy haw" is a kind of...):

haw; hawthorn (a spring-flowering shrub or small tree of the genus Crataegus)

Holonyms ("downy haw" is a member of...):

Crataegus; genus Crataegus (thorny shrubs and small trees: hawthorn; thorn; thorn apple)

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