Converse of object

• include: Hedges on the slopes and along the narrow lanes include hawthorn, hazel and beech.

• remove: We will be removing hawthorn from the chalk grasslands and laying a hedge.

• rise: The species planted are: blackthorn, dogwood, field maple, guelder rose, hawthorn and hazel.

• contain: The hedges contains hawthorn, hazel, field maple, spindle, rose and holly.

• use: The hawthorn used to flower around May Day and was central to the ancient customs of the coming of summer.

Preposition: in

• blossom: It was there he is struck speechless by the beauty of hawthorns in blossom.

Adjective modifier

• common: The Glastonbury Thorn is simply a sport of common hawthorn, unusual but not unknown elsewhere.

• old: An old hawthorn hedge A mixture of species within a native hedgerow is an excellent habitat for small birds and mammals too.

• hazel: Scrub regeneration includes hazel, elder, hawthorn and sallow.

• elder: The understorey is a sparse layer of elder, hawthorn with some regenerating cherry.

• young: Hedge-laying The younger hawthorns between ourselves and our neighbor's gardens were at a perfect stage for laying.

Modifies a noun

• blossom: Images of natural objects - the broken egg, the pine cones, the trampled hawthorn blossom - carry strong messages of violence.

• hedge: Hidden in a hawthorn hedge opposite MGM Garden & Leisure.

• berry: Hawthorn berries are also good for increasing the circulation.

• scrub: The surrounding hawthorn scrub provides excellent nesting habitat for small birds.

• bush: He died spell bound by his mistress Vivian, in a hawthorn bush.

• hedgerow: However, in this LCA, predominantly hawthorn hedgerows are generally overgrown.

Noun used with modifier

• water: Water lilies in their many varieties and water hawthorn are both lovely and provide shade for the pond's surface.

• canal-side: Ten or twenty House Martins hawk for insects above the canal-side hawthorns.

• midland: All the other ancient forest trees in quantity - small leaved lime, hornbeam, sessile oak, midland hawthorn.