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Sweetbriar

noun

Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips. Synonyms: briar, brier, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbrier.

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"Sweetbriar" Quotes from Famous Books

... natives are so diminutive and paltry that they can scarcely be perceived from a distance. At Pahia it was quite pleasing to behold the English flowers in the gardens before the houses; there were roses of several kinds, honeysuckle, jasmine, stocks, and whole hedges of sweetbriar. ...

— A Naturalist's Voyage Round the World - The Voyage Of The Beagle • Charles Darwin

... the roots of Bussorah roses, as well as the Rose Edward, and Madras roses, for succession to those on which this operation was performed last month. Prune, and trim the Sweetbriar, and Many-flowered rose. ...

— Flowers and Flower-Gardens • David Lester Richardson

... sweetbriar bush Drop't down to pick the worm; On the horse-chestnut sang the thrush, O'er the house where I was born; The moonlight, like a shower of pearls, Fell o'er this "bower of bliss," And on the bench sat boys and girls: My ...

— Life and Remains of John Clare - "The Northamptonshire Peasant Poet" • J. L. Cherry