woodbine
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- noun
- UK
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madreselva
- The woodbine twined around the old oak tree, its flowers attracting many butterflies.
Examples
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But more interesting are the striking, metrically risky phrases that the two have in common: "the fayre flowre Delice" and the "pale Gessamine"; the "loved Lillies" and the "well-attir'd woodbine."
Academic text (2005) -
I know a bank where the wild thy me blows, where oxlips and the nodding violet grows, quite over canopied with the luscious woodbine, with sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.
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So doth the woodbine, the sweet honeysuckle gently entwist...
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I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, where oxlips and the nodding Violet grows, quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine, with sweet musk-roses and with eglantine:
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In the garden, the woodbine climbed over the trellis, filling the air with its lovely fragrance.
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During summer, the woodbine blooms beautifully, with red and white flowers that stand out in the greenery.
Synonyms
A climbing honeysuckle with fragrant red and cream flowers
A climbing shrub that has sweet-smelling white and yellow flowers and red fruit
Compounds
How Fragrant
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Woodbine comes from Old English parts wood ('wood') and bind ('to tie' or 'twine'). So the name fits the European honeysuckle: it is a climbing plant that literally 'binds' itself around wood, gates, and branches.