WOODBINE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does woodbine mean? 

• WOODBINE (noun)
  The noun WOODBINE has 2 senses:

1. common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruit

2. European twining honeysuckle with fragrant red and yellow-white flowers

  Familiarity information: WOODBINE used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOODBINE (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruit

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

American ivy; Parthenocissus quinquefolia; Virginia creeper; woodbine

Hypernyms ("woodbine" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Holonyms ("woodbine" is a member of...):

genus Parthenocissus; Parthenocissus (woody vines having disklike tips on the tendrils)

Sense 2

Meaning:

European twining honeysuckle with fragrant red and yellow-white flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Lonicera periclymenum; woodbine

Hypernyms ("woodbine" is a kind of...):

honeysuckle (shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera)

Holonyms ("woodbine" is a member of...):

genus Lonicera; Lonicera (woodbine)

 Context examples 

"And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?"

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I liked the great terrace best, for the view was divine, so while the rest went to see the rooms inside, I sat there trying to sketch the gray stone lion's head on the wall, with scarlet woodbine sprays hanging round it.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)