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sweet-brier

sweet-brier is the alternative form of sweetbrier.

Meaning of sweetbrier

Noun

sweetbrier (plural sweetbriers)

  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.1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    eglantine

Forms of sweet-brier

pluralsweet-briers

Questions about sweet-brier

What is sweet-brier the alternative form of?
Sweet-brier is the alternative form of sweetbrier.

Words near sweet-brier in the dictionary

  1. sweet-and-sour sauces
  2. sweet-and-sours
  3. sweet-breare
  4. sweet-briar
  5. sweet-briars
  6. sweet-brier
  7. sweet-briers
  8. sweet-clover
  9. sweet-clovers
  10. sweet-corn
  11. sweet-gale

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