What does eglantine mean?
Definitions for eglantine
ˈɛg lənˌtaɪn, -ˌtineglan·tine
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Princeton's WordNet
sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanterianoun
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
Wiktionary
eglantinenoun
A Eurasian rose, Rosa eglanteria, having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers and red hips
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Eglantinenoun
A species of rose. See Rose.
Etymology: esglantier, French.
O’er canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk roses, and with eglantine. William Shakespeare.The leaf of eglantine, not to slander,
Outsweeten’d not thy breath. William Shakespeare, Cymbeline.Sycamores with eglantine were spread,
A hedge about the sides, a covering over head. Dryden.
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eglantine
Eglantine is a type of plant, specifically a variety of wild rose with pinkish-white flowers, known scientifically as Rosa eglanteria. It is characterized by sweet-scented leaves and is also commonly referred to as sweet briar.
Webster Dictionary
Eglantinenoun
a species of rose (Rosa Eglanteria), with fragrant foliage and flowers of various colors
Eglantinenoun
the sweetbrier (R. rubiginosa)
Etymology: [F. glantine, fr. OF. aiglent brier, hip tree, fr. (assumed) LL. acuculentus, fr. a dim. of L. acus needle; cf. F. aiguille needle. Cf. Aglet.]
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
Eglantine
eg′lan-tīn, n. a name given to the sweet-brier, and some other species of rose, whose branches are covered with sharp prickles. [Fr.,—O. Fr. aiglent, as if from a L. aculentus, prickly—acus, a needle, and suff. lentus.]
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Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of eglantine in Chaldean Numerology is: 5
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of eglantine in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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