eglantine
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of eglantine
1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French; Old French aiglent (< Vulgar Latin *aculentum, neuter of *aculentus prickly, equivalent to Latin acu ( s ) needle + -lentus adj. suffix) + -ine -ine 1
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Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine: .
From Time Magazine Archive
The swift growth of the wild with briar and eglantine and trailing clematis was already drawing a veil over this place of dreadful feast and slaughter; but it was not ancient.
From "The Two Towers" by J. R. R. Tolkien
Before Freneau, American poetry had been full of the eglantine, the yew, the Babylonian willow, the lark—the flora and fauna of the Hebrew and British bards.
From The Poems of Philip Freneau, Volume I (of III) by Philip Freneau
The eglantine of the herbalists was the sweet-brier, Rosa rubiginosa.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 1 "Edwardes" to "Ehrenbreitstein" by Various
I look'd, and look'd, and still with new delight, Such joy my soul, such pleasures fill'd my sight; And the fresh eglantine exhaled a breath, Whose odours were of power to raise from death.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 355, May 1845 by Various
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