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sweetbriar

sweetbriar 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 sweetbriar

pluralsweetbriars

Questions about sweetbriar

What is sweetbriar the alternative form of?
Sweetbriar is the alternative form of sweetbrier.

Words near sweetbriar in the dictionary

  1. sweetbay magnolia
  2. sweetbay magnolias
  3. sweetbox
  4. sweetbread
  5. sweetbreads
  6. sweetbriar
  7. sweetbriars
  8. sweetbrier
  9. sweetbriers
  10. sweetcakes
  11. sweetcap peach

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