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).
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Note: Milton, in the following lines, has applied the name to
some twining plant, perhaps the honeysuckle.
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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.
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