eglantine

[ eg-luhn-tahyn, -teen ]

noun

1. the sweetbrier.

eglantine

/ ˈɛɡlənˌtaɪn /

noun

1. another name for sweetbrier

Word History and Origins

Origin of eglantine¹

1350–1400; Middle English < Middle French; Old French aiglent (< Vulgar Latin *aculentum, neuter of *aculentus prickly, equivalent to Latin acu ( s ) needle + -lentus adj. suffix) + -ine -ine ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of eglantine¹

C14: from Old French aiglent, ultimately from Latin acus needle, from acer sharp, keen

Example Sentences

Jordan said the hardest flowers from the song to grow are eglantines, which bloom on a bush littered with thorns and spikes.

From Washington Times

The swift growth of the wild with briar and eglantine and trailing clematis was already drawing a veil over this place of dreadful feast and slaughter; but it was not ancient.

From Literature

In his first utterance the Protector, performed with brilliance and subtlety by the formidable Purves, sings of his possessions: the fields, the vines, the night stars, the pink eglantine, the obedient body of his wife.

From The Guardian

Close by my side she sat, and fair in sight, Full in a line, against her opposite; Where stood with eglantine the laurel twin’d; And both their native sweets were well conjoin’d.

From Project Gutenberg

The younger, seated on the goat as though it were her customary place, was of such rosy-white complexion as you see in the flower of the eglantine.

From Project Gutenberg