Definitions
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
Word origin
From French églantine, Middle English eglentyn, from Old French aiglantin (adj.), from Old French aiglent (“sweetbrier”), from Latin aculentus (with the ending of spinulentus (“thorny, prickly”)), from aculeus (“prickle”), from acus (“needle”).
Used in a sentence
“Then to come in spite of sorrow, And at my window bid good-morrow, Through the sweet-briar, or the vine, Or the twisted eglantine [...]”
“Come down, we pray thee, ere the hot sun count His dewy rosary on the eglantine.”
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01“Wild rose”9 letters
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