Home › Words › M › maybloommaybloommaybloom means the hawthorn.EtymologyFrom May + bloom.nounThe hawthorn.e.g.“When we all went gathering/Boughs of May-bloom for the bees.” — 1861 January 7, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Bertha in the Lane (poem):Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).