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eglantine

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eg=lan=tine

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun eglantine has 1 sense

eglantine(n = noun.plant) briar, brier, rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier - Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips; Array

is a kind of rose, rosebush

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CIDE DICTIONARY

eglantine, n. [F. églantine, fr. OF. aiglent brier, hip tree, fr. (assumed) LL. acuculentus, fr. a dim. of L. acus needle; cf. F. aiguille needle. Cf. Aglet.].

A species of rose (Rosa Eglanteria), with fragrant foliage and flowers of various colors. [1913 Webster]

"Through the sweetbrier, or the vine,
Or the twisted eglantine."

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

eglantine, n. sweet-brier.

Etymology

ME f. F {eacute}glantine f. OF aiglent ult. f. L acus needle

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