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woodbine
[ wood-bahyn ]
noun
- any of several climbing vines, especially those of genera Lonicera of the honeysuckle family and Parthenocissus of the grape family.
woodbine
/ ˈwuːdˌbaɪn /
noun
- a honeysuckle, Lonicera periclymenum, of Europe, SW Asia, and N Africa, having fragrant creamy flowers
- American woodbinea related North American plant, L. caprifolium
- another name for Virginia creeper
- obsolete.an Englishman
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Word History and Origins
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Word History and Origins
Origin of woodbine1
sense 4 from the English brand of cigarettes so named
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Example Sentences
Trailing woodbine covered the fences to right and left, and along these fences grew thrifty berry bushes.
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Plainly Woodbine County was falling out of touch with the century-old traditions of her sisters to the north and west of her.
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Great crimson roses, wet with dew, and odorous woodbine peeped in as she opened it.
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A little brown house built of logs was almost entirely covered with vines, a tangle of woodbine and honeysuckle and wistaria.
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The scent of a sprig of wild woodbine holds a charm beyond all the perfumes of the chemist's shop.
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