woodbine Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruit
    Parthenocissus quinquefolia; American ivy; Virginia creeper.
  2. noun European twining honeysuckle with fragrant red and yellow-white flowers
    Lonicera periclymenum.

WordNet

Wood"bine` noun
Etymology
AS. wudubind black ivy; -- so named as binding about trees. See Wood, and Bind, v. t.
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) (a) A climbing plant having flowers of great fragrance (Lonicera Periclymenum); the honeysuckle. (b) The Virginia creeper. See Virginia creeper, under Virginia. Local, U. S.
    Beatrice, who even now Is couched in the woodbine coverture. Shak.

Webster 1913