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sweet briar

sweet briar 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 briar

pluralsweet briars

Questions about sweet briar

What is sweet briar the alternative form of?
Sweet briar is the alternative form of sweetbrier.

Words near sweet briar in the dictionary

  1. sweet bean sauces
  2. sweet birch
  3. sweet birches
  4. sweet bread
  5. sweet breads
  6. sweet briar
  7. sweet briars
  8. sweet brier
  9. sweet briers
  10. sweet bursaria
  11. sweet butter

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