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单词 eglantine
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Brit. /ˈɛɡləntʌɪn/, /ˈɛɡləntiːn/, /ˈɛɡləntɪn/, U.S. /ˈɛɡlənˌtin/, /ˈɛɡlənˌtaɪn/
Forms: Middle English–1500s eglentine, (1500s eggletyne), 1600s– eglantine.
Etymology: < French églantine (= Provençal aiglentina), < Old French aiglent of same meaning, probably representing Latin type *aculentus prickly, < acus needle + -lentus suffix, as in virulentus, luculentus; compare aculeus sting, prickle.
1. More fully eglantine rose. The Sweet-briar; also attributive.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > brier or wild rose-bush > [noun]
brierc1000
eglaterea1400
eglantinec1400
hound's thornc1420
dogberry1527
dog-briar1530
sweet-briar1538
brier-bush1562
dog bramble1567
canker1582
dog rose1597
canker rose1606
dog-thorn1694
cynorrhodon1706
bramble-rose1713
Scotch rose1731
white dog rose1770
brier-rose1810
bull-brier1860
missionary1881
burnet-rose1884
c1400 Mandeville's Trav. ii. 14 There he was crouned with Eglantier [v.r. Eglentine].
1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. N vj The eglentine is much like the common brere but the leues are swete and pleasant to smel to.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 252 Quite ouercanopi'd with..Eglantine . View more context for this quotation
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. 62/2 The Eglantine Rose is the Sweet brier Rose.
a1763 W. Shenstone Odes (1765) 122 Nor spare the sweet-leaft eglantine.
1820 J. Keats Isabella in Lamia & Other Poems 61 Ere the hot sun count His dewy rosary on the eglantine.
1882 M. E. Braddon Mt. Royal II. iv. 82 Hedges filled with honeysuckle and eglantine.
2. By Milton possibly taken for: The honeysuckle.
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1645 J. Milton L'Allegro in Poems 32 Through the Sweet-Briar, or the Vine, Or the twisted Eglantine.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

eglantinen.2

Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French églantine.
Etymology: < French églantine (1749 in Buffon, or earlier), of uncertain origin; perhaps a transferred use of églantine eglantine n.1 (if so, perhaps with reference to the colour of the stone).Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈeglantine.
(See quot. 1774.)
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1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth I. 58 Eglantine, a stone of the hardness and grain of marble.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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