The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
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Prospect Park in May is a commotion of beauty: meadows and dense rambles, hills and hollows, everything covered in chokeberries, spicebush, violets, flowering hawthorns, magnolias and lindens.
From New York Times ● Feb. 17, 2021
Tangles of willows, cottonwoods and hawthorns grew alongside the creek and its tributaries.
From Washington Times ● Jun. 18, 2016
Serviceberry bushes and hawthorns framed a bubbling stream, engineered to look like it was flowing naturally through a ponderosa pine forest.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 27, 2011
What happened to the green and Washington hawthorns, small trees with spring blossoms and persistent red berries?
From Washington Post
I rolled a log up to the fire for him and shoved it against a tree that was blocked from the raw biting wind by a stand of hawthorns.
From "My Side of the Mountain" by Jean Craighead George
