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sweetbriers

sweetbriers is the plural 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

Questions about sweetbriers

What is sweetbriers the plural of?
Sweetbriers is the plural of sweetbrier.

Words near sweetbriers in the dictionary

  1. sweetbread
  2. sweetbreads
  3. sweetbriar
  4. sweetbriars
  5. sweetbrier
  6. sweetbriers
  7. sweetcakes
  8. sweetcap peach
  9. sweetcap peaches
  10. sweetcheeks
  11. sweetclover

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