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European rose
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sweetbrier
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A Eurasian rose, (taxlink Rosa eglanteria species noshow=1), having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers and red hips
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips [syn: sweetbriar , brier , briar , eglantine , Rosa eglanteria ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Sweetbrier \Sweet"bri`er\, n. (Bot.) A kind of rose ( Rosa rubiginosa ) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha .
Usage examples of sweetbrier.
Wild roses and sweetbrier sent up their evening incense to the radiant sky.
When they had gone away, nearly six months before, those bleak avenues had been leafy arcades, where the birds sang all the bright day long, flowers had bloomed wherever her eye rested, and red roses and sweetbrier had twined themselves around the low windows and stone pillars of the portico.
Nedda, waking, could hear the heavy drops pattering on the sweetbrier and clematis thatching her open window.