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for eglantine
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :
Eglantine \Eg"lan*tine\, n. [F. ['e]glantine, fr. OF. aiglent
brier, hip tree, fr. (assumed) LL. acuculentus, fr. a dim. of
L. acus needle; cf. F. aiguille needle. Cf. Aglet.] (Bot.)
(a) A species of rose ({Rosa Eglanteria), with fragrant
foliage and flowers of various colors.
(b) The sweetbrier ({R. rubiginosa).
[1913 Webster]
Note: Milton, in the following lines, has applied the name to
some twining plant, perhaps the honeysuckle.
[1913 Webster]
Through the sweetbrier, or the vine,
Or the twisted eglantine. --L'Allegro,
47.
"In our early writers and in Gerarde and the
herbalists, it was a shrub with white flowers." --Dr.
Prior.
[1913 Webster]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) :
eglantine
n 1: Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and
bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips [syn:
sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine,
Rosa eglanteria]
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