sweetbrier
sweetbrier noun: a Eurasian rose (Rosa rubiginosa, syn. Rosa eglanteria), having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers, and red hips.
Noun
sweetbrier (plural sweetbriers)
- 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
- 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.1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC
- Synonyms:
- eglantine
Synonyms of sweetbrier
Forms of sweetbrier
| plural | sweetbriers |
|---|---|
| alternative form | sweet-brier |
| alternative form | sweet brier |
| alternative form | sweetbriar |
| alternative form | sweet-briar |
| alternative form | sweet briar |
| alternative form | sweet-breare |
Origin of sweetbrier
From sweet + brier.
Questions about sweetbrier
- What does sweetbrier mean?
- Sweetbrier means a Eurasian rose (Rosa rubiginosa, syn. Rosa eglanteria), having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers, and red hips.
- What part of speech is sweetbrier?
- Sweetbrier is a noun.
- What is the plural of sweetbrier?
- The plural of sweetbrier is sweetbriers.
Words near sweetbrier in the dictionary
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