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
The viny arbour was principally gone to decay, and the eglantine blushed mournfully along the fences.
From Alida or, Miscellaneous Sketches of Incidents During the Late American War. Founded on Fact by Comfield, Amelia Stratton
Yet spring came again with its green and blue, And presently summer's wild roses too, Pinks, Sweet William, and sops-in-wine, Blackberry, lavender, eglantine.
From Down-Adown-Derry A Book of Fairy Poems by De la Mare, Walter
We followed a pretty steep, winding path up to the top, quantities of wild roses, a delicate pink, like our eglantine at home, twisting themselves around the bushes.
From Italian Letters of a Diplomat's Life January-May, 1880; February-April, 1904 by Waddington, Mary Alsop King
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