sweetbrier
noun
a rose, Rosa eglanteria, of Europe and central Asia, having a tall stem, stout, hooked prickles often mixed with bristles, and single, pink flowers.
sweetbriar
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a variation of
sweetbrier.
Example Sentences
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One afternoon Mr. Goldfinch saw a tiny green-brown bird on a sweetbriar bush, and as he watched her he thought her the most beautiful creature he had ever seen.
From Among the Forest People by Clara Dillingham Pierson
"Don't you remember," he went on, "you gave me a bit of sweetbriar on the evening of the first day we ever met?"
From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli
It was the sweetbriar hedge that made me decide to miss the 9.15.
From Punch, or the London Charivari, Volume 159, August 11, 1920 by Sir Owen Seaman
She unlatched the casements and threw them wide, and clean, salt, sweet air came streaming in, bringing the fragrance of mignonette and wallflower and sweetbriar, and the aromatic smells of the larch and pine.
From The Dop Doctor by Richard Dehan
I have that piece of sweetbriar still," he said; "I shall never part with it.
From The Treasure of Heaven A Romance of Riches by Marie Corelli
