NOUN
- any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red berries
How To Use firethorn In A Sentence
- Other shrubs with showy berries include viburnum species, firethorn, Aucuba japonica, barberry, cotoneaster, chokeberry and Skimmia japonica.
- Plants with unique visual characteristics such as red leaf toyon, and red berry-producing firethorn are very hardy.
- The haws are gone from the hawthorn and the berries on the shrubs such as the firethorn are bare and nothing remains save the very sour or poisonous varieties which the birds seem to be able to identify.
- Prickly hedges are the answer here and firethorn (pyracantha), berberis and cockspur thorn are appropriate boundary plants. The Sun
- Other shrubs with showy berries include viburnum species, firethorn, Aucuba japonica, barberry, cotoneaster, chokeberry and Skimmia japonica.
- Some hollies have orange berries rather than red, as does Pyracantha (firethorn).
- What better than firethorn to light up our view?
- Wild roses and firethorns grow there and their beauty is without equal.
