eglantine (ĕg`ləntīn), name for various kinds of rose rose, common name for some members of the Rosaceae, a large family of herbs, shrubs, and trees distributed over most of the earth, and for plants of the genus Rosa, the true roses.
..... Click the link for more information. (family Rosaceae), chiefly sweetbrier sweetbrier, sweetbriar, or eglantine (ĕg`ləntīn, –tēn) [O. Fr.
..... Click the link for more information. , and for a honeysuckle honeysuckle, common name for some members of the Caprifoliaceae, a family comprised mostly of vines and shrubs of the Northern Hemisphere, especially abundant in E Asia and E North America.
..... Click the link for more information. (family Caprifoliaceae). The name eglantine has been much used in English poetry.

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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