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eglantine
eglantine, name for various kinds of rose (family Rosaceae), chiefly sweetbrier, and for a honeysuckle (family Caprifoliaceae). The name eglantine has been much used in English poetry.
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sweetbrier
or eglantine

Small, prickly wild rose (Rosa eglanteria, or R. rubiginosa) with fragrant foliage and numerous small pink flowers, native to Europe and western Asia. Widely naturalized in North America, it grows along roadsides and in pastures from eastern Canada southwest to Tennessee and Kansas. The shrub form, which can grow 6 ft (2 m) high, is useful for screening out traffic noise and beautifying highways.

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Eglantine
Jan 01, 1996; Eglantine. Eglantine von Puiset (mez), a rebel's daughter and Lysiart's lover, in Weber's Euryanthe .
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Owen's 'Page Eglantine.' (Wilfred Owen)
Mar 22, 1995; Some critics and biographers have reluctantly noted that during the last years of Wilfred Owen's life he wrote certain odd poems...
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eglantine
Jan 01, 1996; eglantine sweet-briar. XV. — OF. églantine , ult. f. aculeus prickle, sting.
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Eglantine, Madame
Jan 01, 2003; Eglantine, Madame, or Madame Eglentyne , the Prioress in Chaucer's Canterbury Tales .
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Eglantine "Connie" Beaule
Feb 16, 2006; LEWISTON - Eglantine "Connie" Beaule, 77, of Lewiston, died early Wednesday morning, Feb. 15, at d'Youville Pavilion surrounded...
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