EGLANTINE

sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria

(noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

eglantine (plural eglantines)

A Eurasian rose, Rosa eglanteria, having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers and red hips.

Synonym: sweetbrier

Anagrams

• Galentine, elegantin, inelegant, legantine

Source: Wiktionary


Eg"lan*tine, n. Etym: [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.] (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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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