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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr. [GREEK] fire + [GREEK] a thorn, prickly plant.]

(Bot.)

The evergreen thorn (

Cratægus Pyracantha

), a shrub native of Europe.

Noun.

[Gr. fiery thorn.] A plant; a kind of thorn of the genus Mespilus.

pyracanth ‎(plural pyracanths)

Any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha having small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries