woodbine

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English

Etymology

From wood +‎ bine.

Noun

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woodbine

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.
1. Species of Lonicera (honeysuckle), particularly:
  1. Lonicera periclymenum, European honeysuckle, common honeysuckle
  2. Lonicera xylosteum, European fly honeysuckle, dwarf honeysuckle, fly woodbine
2. Species of Parthenocissus, particularly:
3. Clematis virginiana, devil's darning needle
4. Gelsemium sempervirens, yellow jessamine

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