- May - the month following April and preceding June
--1 is a kind of Gregorian calendar month
--1 is a part of Gregorian calendar, New Style calendar; spring, springtime
--1 has parts:May Day, First of May, May 1; Mother's Day; Armed Forces Day; Memorial Day, Decoration Day; Commonwealth Day, Empire day, May 24; mid-May - whitethorn, English hawthorn, may, Crataegus laevigata, Crataegus oxycantha - thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America
--2 is a kind of hawthorn, haw
--2 is a member of Crataegus, genus Crataegus - whitethorn, English hawthorn, may, Crataegus laevigata, Crataegus oxycantha - thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America