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haw, common name for several plants, e.g., the hawthorn hawthorn, any species of the genus Crataegus of the family Rosaceae (rose family), shrubs and trees widely distributed in north temperate climates and especially common in E North America.
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 and the black haw (see honeysuckle honeysuckle, common name for some members of the Caprifoliaceae, a family comprised mostly of vines and shrubs of the Northern Hemisphere, especially abundant in E Asia and E North America.
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haw1
1. the round or oval fruit (a pome) of the hawthorn, usually red or yellow, containing one to five seeds
2. another name for hawthorn

haw2
the nictitating membrane of a horse or other domestic animal


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Byline: Tim Christie The Register-Guard SPRINGFIELD - Joe Hawes is not opening a restaurant in his office building in the Gateway district because he's a frustrated chef.
BRONWYN HAWES, RN An Invercargill registered nurse (RN) Bronwyn Hawes has had her registration cancelled following conviction on 21 dishonesty charges.
James Hawes compiles a long list of these myths at the beginning of his book and usefully lists them thus: "mysterious genius, lonely Middle European Nostradamus, ignored by his contemporaries, plumbed the depths of his mysterious, quasi-saintly psyche to predict the Holocaust and the Gulags".
 
 
 
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