eglantine

American  

[eg-luhn-tahyn, -teen] / ˈɛg lənˌtaɪn, -ˌtin /

noun

1. the sweetbrier.

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eglantine British  

/ ˈɛɡlənˌtaɪn /

noun

1. another name for sweetbrier

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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

Example Sentences

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

But, alas! my pigeon cares not either for your good fruit, or for your beautiful ear of ripe wheat, or for your fresh bud of eglantine.

From The Blacksmith's Hammer, or The Peasant Code A Tale of the Grand Monarch by Sue, Eug?ne

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

"We call this herbe in Norfolke sattin," says Gerard, "and among our women, it is called honestie and gillyflowers, which meant pinks as well, and dear English roses and eglantine."

From Colonial Homes and Their Furnishings by Northend, Mary H.