woodbine

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wood·bine

(wo͝od′bīn′)

1. Any of various climbing vines, especially a European honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum) having yellowish flowers.

[Middle English wodebinde, from Old English wudubinde : wudu, wood + binde, wreath (from bindan, to bind; see bhendh- in Indo-European roots).]

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woodbine

(ˈwuːdˌbaɪn)

1. (Plants) a honeysuckle, Lonicera periclymenum, of Europe, SW Asia, and N Africa, having fragrant creamy flowers

2. (Plants) American woodbine a related North American plant, L. caprifolium

3. (Plants) US another name for Virginia creeper¹

4. (Peoples) obsolete slang Austral an Englishman

[sense 4 from the English brand of cigarettes so named]

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wood•bine

(ˈwʊdˌbaɪn)

n.

any of several climbing vines, as a European honeysuckle, Lonicera periclymenum, or the Virginia creeper.

[before 900; Middle English wodebinde, Old English wudubind <wudu wood¹ + bind binding; see bind]

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Noun	1.	woodbine - common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruit American ivy, Parthenocissus quinquefolia, Virginia creeper vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface genus Parthenocissus, Parthenocissus - woody vines having disklike tips on the tendrils
	2.	woodbine - European twining honeysuckle with fragrant red and yellow-white flowers Lonicera periclymenum genus Lonicera, Lonicera - woodbine honeysuckle - shrub or vine of the genus Lonicera

Translations

caprifoglio

woodbine

[ˈwʊdbaɪn] N

1. (= honeysuckle) → madreselva f

2. (US) (= Virginia creeper) → viña f loca

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woodbine

n (= honeysuckle) → Geißblatt nt; (US: = Virginia creeper) → wilder Wein, Jungfernrebe f

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woodbine

[ˈwʊdˌbaɪn] n (honeysuckle) → caprifoglio

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Sometimes they would work on the side porch where the clematis and woodbine shaded them from the hot sun.

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I liked the great terrace best, for the view was divine, so while the rest went to see the rooms inside, I sat there trying to sketch the gray stone lion's head on the wall, with scarlet woodbine sprays hanging round it.

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Scarlet beans and honeysuckles were climbing up from below to meet their pretty neighbours, and the woodbine was hanging its green festoons wherever it could cling.

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When these were done, she took some needle-work from her basket, and sat herself down upon a stool beside the lattice, where the honeysuckle and woodbine entwined their tender stems, and stealing into the room filled it with their delicious breath.

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The sullen murmur of the bees shouldering their way through the long unmown grass, or circling with monotonous insistence round the dusty gilt horns of the straggling woodbine, seemed to make the stillness more oppressive.

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And still, as we went through the pretty rooms, out at the little rustic verandah doors, and underneath the tiny wooden colonnades garlanded with woodbine, jasmine, and honey-suckle, I saw in the papering on the walls, in the colours of the furniture, in the arrangement of all the pretty objects, MY little tastes and fancies, MY little methods and inventions which they used to laugh at while they praised them, my odd ways everywhere.

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None had such lovely trees standing around, or was so covered with trailing clematis and sweet woodbine; none had such good beer and such humming ale; nor, in wintertime, when the north wind howled and snow drifted around the hedges, was there to be found, elsewhere, such a roaring fire as blazed upon the hearth of the Blue Boar.

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However, he married the young lady, and they lived in a humble dwelling, probably possessing a porch ornamented with honeysuckle and woodbine twining, until she died.

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Sir Woodbine Parish informed me of another and very curious source of dispute; the ground being so long dry, such quantities of dust were blown about, that in this open country the landmarks became obliterated, and people could not tell the limits of their estates.

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"And what right would that ruin have to bid a budding woodbine cover its decay with freshness?"

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Thou therefore now advise Or hear what to my mind first thoughts present, Let us divide our labours, thou where choice Leads thee, or where most needs, whether to wind The Woodbine round this Arbour, or direct The clasping Ivie where to climb, while I In yonder Spring of Roses intermixt With Myrtle, find what to redress till Noon: For while so near each other thus all day Our task we choose, what wonder if no near Looks intervene and smiles, or object new Casual discourse draw on, which intermits Our dayes work brought to little, though begun Early, and th' hour of Supper comes unearn'd.

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But Hunsden comes; I hear his step, and there he is, bending through the lattice, from which he has thrust away the woodbine with unsparing hand, disturbing two bees and a butterfly.