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eglantine

[ eg-luhn-tahyn, -teen ]

noun

  1. the sweetbrier.


eglantine

/ ˈɛɡ±ôÉ™²ÔËŒ³Ù²¹Éª²Ô /

noun

  1. another name for sweetbrier
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of eglantine1

1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French; Old French aiglent (< Vulgar Latin *aculentum, neuter of *aculentus prickly, equivalent to Latin acu ( s ) needle + -lentus adj. suffix) + -ine -ine 1
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of eglantine1

C14: from Old French aiglent, ultimately from Latin acus needle, from acer sharp, keen
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Jordan said the hardest flowers from the song to grow are eglantines, which bloom on a bush littered with thorns and spikes.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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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