Meaning of Woodbine | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle and the Virginia creeper.
2. A British brand of unfiltered cigarette, now made in Ireland.
3. A cigarette of this brand.
4. A British soldier.
   Australia, World-War-I, slang
5. Species of Lonicera (honeysuckle)
6. Lonicera periclymenum, European honeysuckle, common honeysuckle.
7. A suburb of Sydney in the Campbelltown council area, New South Wales, Australia.
8. Lonicera xylosteum, European fly honeysuckle, dwarf honeysuckle, fly woodbine.
9. A small city, the county seat of Camden County, Georgia, United States.
10. Species of Parthenocissus
11. Parthenocissus quinquefolia, Virginia creeper.
12. Parthenocissus tricuspidata, Japanese creeper, Boston ivy.
13. Parthenocissus vitacea, now Parthenocissus inserta, thicket creeper, false Virginia creeper, grape woodbine.
14. Clematis virginiana, devil's darning needle.
15. Gelsemium sempervirens, yellow jessamine.

Equivalents

Examples

“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.”

“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.”

“Dot handed me a small white tablet of Beechnut chewing gum as we sat on the top deck of the bus on our way home from work one Friday evening. She had also offered me one of her Woodbines.”

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