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caprifoles

caprifoles is the plural of caprifole.

Meaning of caprifole

Noun

caprifole (plural caprifoles)

  1. (obsolete) The woodbine or honeysuckle.
    • With wanton yvie twine entrayled athwart,
      And Eglantine and Caprifole emong […]1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

Questions about caprifoles

What is caprifoles the plural of?
Caprifoles is the plural of caprifole.

Words near caprifoles in the dictionary

  1. caprifig
  2. caprifigs
  3. caprifoil
  4. caprifoils
  5. caprifole
  6. caprifoles
  7. caprifoliaceous
  8. capriform
  9. caprify
  10. caprifying
  11. caprigenous

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