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

Flaming festoons of woodbine and poison ivy begarland the stone wall.

From Minstrel Weather by Storm, Marian

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)

Her skin was white, her wavy hair like the tendrils of the woodbine, her eyes tameless and wild, her mouth like a budding pomegranate.

From Lola Montez An Adventuress of the 'Forties by d'Auvergne, Edmund B.