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a prickly Eurasian wild rose with fragrant leaves, pink flowers, and red hips; sweetbrier
An eglantine climbed over the old garden wall.
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From Middle English eglentyn, borrowed through Old French forms related to aiglent, 'sweetbrier.' The French word is ultimately associated with Latin aculeus, 'prickle,' from acus, 'needle,' referring to the plant's thorns.