Pyracanth

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pyracanth \Pyr"a*canth\, n. [Gr. ? fire + ? a thorn, prickly
     plant.] (Bot.)
     The evergreen thorn ({Crat[ae]gus Pyracantha}), a shrub
     native of Europe.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pyracanth
       n : any of various thorny shrubs of the genus Pyracantha bearing
           small white flowers followed by hard red or orange-red
           berries [syn: {Pyracantha}, {fire thorn}, {firethorn}]