caprifole
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin caper (“goat”) + folium (“leaf”).
Pronunciation
editNoun
editcaprifole (plural caprifoles)
- (obsolete) The woodbine or honeysuckle.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto VI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- With wanton yvie twine entrayled athwart,
And Eglantine and Caprifole emong […]
References
edit“caprifole”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.