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Webster 1913 Edition
Eglantine
Eg′lan-tine
,Noun.
[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
). ☞ Milton, in the following lines, has applied the name to some twining plant, perhaps the honeysuckle.
“In our early writers and in Gerarde and the herbalists, it was a shrub with white flowers.” Dr. Prior.
Webster 1828 Edition
Eglantine
EG'LANTINE
,Noun.