woodbine

See also: Woodbine

English

Noun

woodbine (plural woodbines)

1. Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle and the Virginia creeper
   • 1599, William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing, Act 3 Scene 1

     URSULA. The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish

     Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,

     And greedily devour the treacherous bait:

     So angle we for Beatrice; who even now

     Is couched in the woodbine coverture.

   • 1920, Peter B. Kyne, The Understanding Heart, Chapter II

     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.

   1. Species of Lonicera (honeysuckle), particularly:
      1. , European honeysuckle, common honeysuckle
      2. , European fly honeysuckle, dwarf honeysuckle, fly woodbine
   2. Species of Parthenocissus, particularly:
      1. , Virginia creeper
      2. Parthenocissus tricuspidata, Japanese creeper, Boston ivy
      3. , now , thicket creeper, false Virginia creeper, grape woodbine
   3. , devil's darning needle
   4. Gelsemium sempervirens, yellow jessamine

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• Bowenoid, bowenoid