What does eglantine mean?

Definitions for eglantine
ˈɛg lənˌtaɪn, -ˌtineglan·tine

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanterianoun

    Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

Wiktionary

  1. eglantinenoun

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

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. 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.

ChatGPT

  1. 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

  1. Eglantinenoun

    a species of rose (Rosa Eglanteria), with fragrant foliage and flowers of various colors

  2. Eglantinenoun

    the sweetbrier (R. rubiginosa)

  3. 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

  1. 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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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of eglantine in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of eglantine in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

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    out of condition; not strong or robust; incapable of exertion or endurance
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