eglantine

See also: églantine

English

Etymology

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

Noun

eglantine (plural eglantines)

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

   Synonym: sweetbrier

   • 1820, John Keats, “Isabella; or, The Pot of Basil. A Story from Boccaccio.”, in Lamia, Isabella, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems, London: […] [Thomas Davison] for Taylor and Hessey, […], →OCLC, stanza XXIV, page 61:

     Come down, we pray thee, ere the hot sun count / His dewy rosary on the eglantine.

Translations

Rosa eglanteria

• Bulgarian: дива роза f (diva roza)
• Esperanto: eglanterio
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• French: églantine (fr) f
• Latvian: smaržlapu roze f, ego (lv)

Anagrams

• Galentine, elegantin, inelegant, legantine