woodbine

American  

[wood-bahyn] / ˈwʊdˌbaɪn /

noun

1. any of several climbing vines, especially those of genera Lonicera of the honeysuckle family and Parthenocissus of the grape family.

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woodbine British  

/ ˈwuːdˌbaɪn /

noun

1. a honeysuckle, Lonicera periclymenum, of Europe, SW Asia, and N Africa, having fragrant creamy flowers

2. a related North American plant, L. caprifolium

3. another name for Virginia creeper

4. obsolete an Englishman

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Etymology

Origin of woodbine

First recorded before 900; Middle English wodebind(e), Old English wudubind, wudebinde, equivalent to wudu “wood” + bind “binding”; see origin at wood ¹, bind

Example Sentences

Cool and resourceful, she "smells out money like a honey bee smells out woodbine."

From Time Magazine Archive

Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine: .

From Time Magazine Archive

At each corner of the arbor, our young gardeners set out a fine large woodbine, which the gardener gave them, and at the sides several beautiful climbing roses.

From Woodbine-Arbor; or the Little Gardeners A Story of a Happy Childhood by Anonymous

It was October—the carnival time of the year, When on the ground red apples lie In piles like jewels shining, And redder still on old stone walls Are leaves of woodbine twining.

From The Story of a Doctor's Telephone?Told by His Wife by Firebaugh, Ellen M.

Weeds towered where the woodbine blossomed, and tangled grass sprung up by the threshold where many feet used to tread.

From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by Sigourney, L. H. (Lydia Howard)