woodbine
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See also: Woodbine
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]woodbine (plural woodbines)
- Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle and the Virginia creeper
- 1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene i]:
- 1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter II, in The Understanding Heart:
- Bob gave the man fair warning. Told him if he ever prowled around his home again he'd better come a–fogging; the man took a chance and now he's where the woodbine twineth and the whangdoodle mourneth for its mate.
- Species of Lonicera (honeysuckle), particularly:
- Species of Parthenocissus, particularly:
- Clematis virginiana, devil's darning needle
- Gelsemium sempervirens, yellow jessamine
Derived terms
[edit]- American woodbine (Parthenocissus quinquefolia)
- Carolina wild woodbine (Gelsemium sempervirens)
- Dutch woodbine (Lonicera periclymenum belgica)
- Italian woodbine (Lonicera caprifolium)
- small woodbine (Lonicera dioica)
- wild woodbine (Gelsemium sempervirens, Parthenocissus quinquefolia)