"Blackthorn" is a word in ENGLISH
A species of Crataegus or hawthorn (C. tomentosa). Both
are used for hedges.
A spreading thorny shrub or small tree (Prunus
spinosa), with blackish bark, and bearing little black plums, which are
called sloes; the sloe.
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