What does "woodbine" mean?

Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle and the Virginia creeper.

Woodbine

Common synonyms include: american ivy, lonicera periclymenum, parthenocissus quinquefolia, virginia creeper, virginia creeper, yellow jessamine.

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Noun

1
Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle and the Virginia creeper.
"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."
2
A cigarette of this brand.
"Dot handed me a small white tablet of Beechnut chewing gum as we sat on the top deck of the bus on our way home from work one Friday evening. She had also offered me one of her Woodbines."
3
A British soldier. Australia, World-War-I, slang
4
European twining honeysuckle with fragrant red and yellow-white flowers wordnet
5
Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle and the Virginia creeper.; Species of Lonicera (honeysuckle); Lonicera periclymenum, European honeysuckle, common honeysuckle.

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common North American vine with compound leaves and bluish-black berrylike fruit wordnet
7
Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle and the Virginia creeper.; Species of Lonicera (honeysuckle); Lonicera xylosteum, European fly honeysuckle, dwarf honeysuckle, fly woodbine.
8
Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle and the Virginia creeper.; Species of Parthenocissus; Parthenocissus quinquefolia, Virginia creeper.
9
Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle and the Virginia creeper.; Species of Parthenocissus; Parthenocissus tricuspidata, Japanese creeper, Boston ivy.
10
Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle and the Virginia creeper.; Species of Parthenocissus; Parthenocissus vitacea, now Parthenocissus inserta, thicket creeper, false Virginia creeper, grape woodbine.
11
Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle and the Virginia creeper.; Clematis virginiana, devil's darning needle.
12
Any of several climbing vines, especially the honeysuckle and the Virginia creeper.; Gelsemium sempervirens, yellow jessamine.

Proper Noun

1
A British brand of unfiltered cigarette, now made in Ireland.
2
A suburb of Sydney in the Campbelltown council area, New South Wales, Australia.
3
A small city, the county seat of Camden County, Georgia, United States.