mayflower

name 1noun 1

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ADJ.

left

VERB + MAYFLOWER

board, ship

MAYFLOWER + NOUN

anti-christmas, port, voyage

PREP.

in, on

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name

A historical ship that transported the Pilgrims to America in the year 1620.

noun

Any of several plants that flower in May - especially the hawthorn (in Britain) and the trailing arbutus (in the US).

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They named the ship the Mayflower.

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Puritanism brought over with it in the Mayflower the anti-Christmas feeling to New England.

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Tom and Mary were on board the Mayflower.

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In the year 1620, the Mayflower left the port of Plymouth in southern England and arrived 10 weeks later in what is now the U.S. state of Massachusetts.

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An exhibition in Plymouth marking the 400-year anniversary of the Mayflower voyage is putting the history of the Wampanoag front and center.

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