Sweetbrier
noun
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 A Eurasian rose (Rosa rubiginosa, syn. Rosa eglanteria), having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers, and red hips.
"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."
- 2 Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips wordnet
Example
More examples"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."
Etymology
From sweet + brier.
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