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Eglantine
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What's The Definition Of Eglantine?
[n] Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
Synonyms | Synonyms for Eglantine: briar | brier | Rosa eglanteria | sweetbriar | sweetbrier Related Terms | Find terms related to Eglantine: See Also | rose Eglantine In Webster's Dictionary \Eg"lan*tine\, n. [F. ['e]glantine, fr. OF. aiglent
brier, hip tree, fr. (assumed) LL. acuculentus, fr. a dim. of
L. acus needle; cf. F. aiguille needle. Cf. {Aglet}.] (Bot.)
(a) A species of rose ({Rosa Eglanteria}), with fragrant
foliage and flowers of various colors.
(b) The sweetbrier ({R. rubiginosa}).
Note: Milton, in the following lines, has applied the name to
some twinning plant, perhaps the honeysuckle.
Through the sweetbrier, or the vine, Or the
twisted eglantine. --L'Allegro,
47.
``In our early writers and in Gerarde and the
herbalists, it was a shrub with white flowers.'' --Dr.
Prior.
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