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woodbind

woodbind is the obsolete form of woodbine.

Meaning of woodbine

Noun

woodbine (plural woodbines)

  1. Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle (Lonicera spp.) and the creepers of genus Parthenocissus.
    • 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.1598–1599 (first performance), William Shakespeare, “Much Adoe about Nothing”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward]...
    1. European honeysuckle or common honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum).
    2. European fly honeysuckle, dwarf honeysuckle, or fly woodbine (Lonicera xylosteum).
    3. Virginia creeper Parthenocissus quinquefolia.
    4. Japanese creeper or Boston ivy (Parthenocissus tricuspidata).
    5. Thicket creeper, false Virginia creeper, of grape woodbine (Parthenocissus inserta, syn. Parthenocissus vitacea).

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Forms of woodbind

pluralwoodbinds

Questions about woodbind

What is woodbind the obsolete form of?
Woodbind is the obsolete form of woodbine.

Words near woodbind in the dictionary

  1. Woodbead
  2. Woodbeck
  3. Woodberry
  4. Woodberrys
  5. woodbin
  6. woodbind
  7. woodbinds
  8. woodbine
  9. woodbined
  10. woodbines
  11. Woodbinian

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