Dictionary.com
definitions
  • synonyms

sweetbrier

or sweet·bri·ar

[sweet-brahy-er]
noun
  1. a rose, Rosa eglanteria, of Europe and central Asia, having a tall stem, stout, hooked prickles often mixed with bristles, and single, pink flowers.
Show More

Origin of sweetbrier

First recorded in 1530–40; sweet + brier1
Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2018

Examples from the Web for sweetbrier

Historical Examples

  • Sweetbrier, and honey, coffee, and baked apples—really delicious.

    The Freelands

    John Galsworthy

  • He held out his hand; Champney handed him a sweetbrier and a tobacco pouch.

    Flamsted quarries

    Mary E. Waller

  • The man who painted it didn't know a sweetbrier from a thistle.

    That Fortune

    Charles Dudley Warner

  • The lawns, bright and soft, sloped for half a mile to the sweetbrier hedge.

  • He now gave us some roses and sweetbrier, and let us out from his pleasant garden.

    Our Old Home, Vol. 2

    Nathaniel Hawthorne

British Dictionary definitions for sweetbrier

sweetbrier

noun
  1. a Eurasian rose, Rosa rubiginosa, having a tall bristly stem, fragrant leaves, and single pink flowersAlso called: eglantine
Show More
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012