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EGLANTINE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does eglantine mean?
• EGLANTINE (noun)
The noun EGLANTINE has 1 sense:
1. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
Familiarity information: EGLANTINE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
briar; brier; eglantine; Rosa eglanteria; sweetbriar; sweetbrier
Hypernyms ("eglantine" is a kind of...):
rose; rosebush (any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses)
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