Found 2 items, similar to eglantine.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: eglantine eglantine n : Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips [syn: sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, Rosa eglanteria]
English → English (gcide) Definition: Eglantine 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]