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eglantine
[ eg-luhn-tahyn, -teen ]
noun
- the sweetbrier.
eglantine
/ ˈɛɡ±ôÉ™²ÔËŒ³Ù²¹Éª²Ô /
noun
- another name for sweetbrier
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of eglantine1
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of eglantine1
Example Sentences
Jordan said the hardest flowers from the song to grow are eglantines, which bloom on a bush littered with thorns and spikes.
The swift growth of the wild with briar and eglantine and trailing clematis was already drawing a veil over this place of dreadful feast and slaughter; but it was not ancient.
In his first utterance the Protector, performed with brilliance and subtlety by the formidable Purves, sings of his possessions: the fields, the vines, the night stars, the pink eglantine, the obedient body of his wife.
Close by my side she sat, and fair in sight, Full in a line, against her opposite; Where stood with eglantine the laurel twin’d; And both their native sweets were well conjoin’d.
The younger, seated on the goat as though it were her customary place, was of such rosy-white complexion as you see in the flower of the eglantine.
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