Sweetbrier

Quick meaning: Sweetbrier is a noun meaning A Eurasian rose (Rosa rubiginosa, syn. Rosa eglanteria), having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers, and red hips.

Meaning

A Eurasian rose (Rosa rubiginosa, syn. Rosa eglanteria), having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers, and red hips.

Example Sentences

But some woods are more coquettish in their habits; and the breath of the forest of Mormal, as it came aboard upon us that showery afternoon, was perfumed with nothing less delicate than sweetbrier.

Is it some ill-fed village hound yielding to the instinct of the chase? or the lost pig which is said to be in these woods, whose tracks I saw after the rain? It comes on apace; my sumachs and sweet-briers tremble.

Word Forms

• sweetbriers
• sweet-brier
• sweet brier
• sweetbriar
• sweet-briar
• sweet briar
• sweet-breare

Synonyms for sweetbrier

Depending on context, synonyms include eglantine, brier, sweetbriar, briar.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include eglantine, briar, sweetbriar, brier, dog-brier, briarberry.

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