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English
Etymology
From Middle English wodebind, wodebinde, from Old English wudubind, wudubinde (“woodbine”), equivalent to wood + bine.
Noun
woodbine (plural woodbines)
- Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle and the Virginia creeper
1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :URSULA. The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish
Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,
And greedily devour the treacherous bait:
So angle we for Beatrice; who even now
Is couched in the woodbine coverture.
1920, Peter B. Kyne, chapter II, in The Understanding Heart:Bob gave the man fair warning. Told him if he ever prowled around his home again he'd better come a–fogging; the man took a chance and now he's where the woodbine twineth and the whangdoodle mourneth for its mate.
- Species of Lonicera (honeysuckle), particularly:
- Lonicera periclymenum, European honeysuckle, common honeysuckle
- Lonicera xylosteum, European fly honeysuckle, dwarf honeysuckle, fly woodbine
- Species of Parthenocissus, particularly:
- Parthenocissus quinquefolia, Virginia creeper
- Parthenocissus tricuspidata, Japanese creeper, Boston ivy
- Parthenocissus vitacea, now Parthenocissus inserta, thicket creeper, false Virginia creeper, grape woodbine
- Clematis virginiana, devil's darning needle
- Gelsemium sempervirens, yellow jessamine
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