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wild brier

American  

noun

  1. the dog rose, Rosa canina.

  2. the sweetbrier, Rosa eglanteria.

  3. any other brier growing wild.


wild brier British  

noun

  1. another name for wild rose

"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

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The stream rushed on, the trees were the same, and in the hollow of the grotto the wild brier grew in its accustomed place, and the clinging moss and the ivy trails were unchanged.

From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various

They search for blackberries, so weak And starving they are grown, Now through a thicket of wild brier, Now ’gainst a hindering stone!

From On the Tree Top by Jessie Curtis

Ere long they were all curled up under the thorny branches of a wild brier.

From The Junior Classics — Volume 8 Animal and Nature Stories by William Patten

I walked by his garden and saw the wild brier, The thorn and the thistle grow broader and higher.

From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 by Charlotte Mary Yonge

Freckles turned to the trail, but he stopped at every wild brier to study the pink satin of the petals.

From Freckles by Gene Stratton-Porter

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