Woodbine

created by Webster 1913
(definition) by Webster 1913 (print) Wed Dec 22 1999 at 4:27:04

Wood"bine` (?), n. [AS. wudubind black ivy; -- so named as binding about trees. See Wood, and Bind, v. t.] Bot. (a)

A climbing plant having flowers of great fragrance (Lonicera Periclymenum); the honeysuckle.

(b)

The Virginia creeper. See Virginia creeper, under Virginia.

[Local, U. S.]

Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture. Shak.

 

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