eglenter (s.xii3/3)
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eglenter (s.xii3/3)

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  FEW:  *aquilentum 25,74a Gdf: ∅ GdfC:  aiglantier 8,53a TL: aiglentier 1,232 DEAF:  aiglent (aiglentier)  DMF:  églantier  TLF:  églantier  OED: ∅ MED:  eglenter n.  DMLBS: ∅
aiglenter,  aiglentier;  eglanter;  eglentere,  eglentier;  eiglentre,  anglentere  ii 143.78,  eclenter  ii 148.78,  englenter  

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1bot.treeseglantine, various plants producing bright red berries, including briar, wild rose, strawberry-tree, cornel, crab-apple, etc.: 
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Meis buissun unt le liu purpris, E eglenter e arbreissal  1467
( s.xiii1; MS: s.xiiim )  Batant les menerent od verges d’aiglentier  4569
( MS: s.xiii )  rubetum: (A) englenter  ii 52
( MS: s.xiii )  cornus: (C) eglenter gallic  ii 31
( MS: s.xiiiex )  arbutus: botun de hay =hawthorn, eglentere  26
( MS: c.1300 )  bedegar: gallice englenter  124.64
( MS: s.xv )  Pernetz merch, ribwort, morele, plantayne, e le crop de ruge englentere  149.E333
♦bot.eglantine branch: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiiim )  Saint Lorenz ont desvestu; Batent lei (=him) d’aiglenter tot nu  523
butun d’eglenter
1fig.bot.eglantine berry (as worthless object): 
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Kar ne vaut lur poisance un butun d’eglenter  1672
eglent  eglentesse  eglerier  glenter 
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