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English Dictionary: Rosa eglanteria by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Rosa eglanteria
n
  1. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
    Synonym(s): sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Eglantine \Eg"lan*tine\, n. [F. [82]glantine, fr. OF. aiglent
      brier, hip tree, fr. (assumed) LL. acuculentus, fr. a dim. of
      L. acus needle; cf. F. aiguille needle. Cf. {Aglet}.] (Bot.)
      (a) A species of rose ({Rosa Eglanteria}), with fragrant
            foliage and flowers of various colors.
      (b) The sweetbrier ({R. rubiginosa}).
  
      Note: Milton, in the following lines, has applied the name to
               some twinning plant, perhaps the honeysuckle.
  
                        Through the sweetbrier, or the vine, Or the
                        twisted eglantine.                        --L'Allegro,
                                                                              47.
               [bd]In our early writers and in Gerarde and the
               herbalists, it was a shrub with white flowers.[b8]
               --Dr. Prior.
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