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
Example Sentences
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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
Rathe primrose, violet, and eglantine, Anemone and golden celandine.
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Gordon Stables
Here "The oxlips and the nodding violet grow: Quite over-canopied with lush woodbine, with sweet musk-roses and with eglantine."
From Airy Fairy Lilian by Margaret Wolfe Hamilton (AKA Duchess)
Here was moss, dead leaves, many varieties of creepers, sumac, wild grapevine, and now and again eglantine, its flat, pink-white blossoms brightening the heavy shade.
From A Maid of the Kentucky Hills by Edwin Carlile Litsey
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