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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.
A species of rose; the sweet brier; a plant bearing an odoriferous flower.

Definition 2025

eglantine

eglantine

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English

Noun

eglantine ‎(plural eglantines)

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

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From French églantine, Middle English eglentyn, from Old French aiglantin (adj.), from Old French aiglent 'sweetbrier', from Latin aculentus (with the ending of Latin spinulentus 'thorny, prickly'), from Latin aculeus 'prickle', from Latin acus 'needle'.

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