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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Eglantine \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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: eglantine n : Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips [syn: {sweetbrier}, {sweetbriar}, {brier}, {briar}, {Rosa eglanteria}]
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