sweetbrier
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sweetbrier
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From sweet + brier.
noun sweetbriers · sweet-brier · sweet brier · sweetbriar · sweet-briar · sweet briar
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A Eurasian rose (Rosa rubiginosa, syn. Rosa eglanteria), having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers, and red hips.
Is it some ill-fed village hound yielding to the instinct of the chase? or the lost pig which is said to be in these woods, whose tracks I saw after the rain? It comes on apace; my sumachs and sweet-briers tremble.
Similar: eglantine
Talk about this word "sweetbrier." Wiktionary, via Micwyn, micwyn.com/word/sweetbrier. Accessed 6 Nov. 2026. sweetbrier. (n.d.). In Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Retrieved November 6, 2026, from https://micwyn.com/word/sweetbrier "sweetbrier." Wiktionary, via Micwyn. Accessed November 6, 2026. https://micwyn.com/word/sweetbrier.Cite this
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title = {sweetbrier},
howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
year = {2026},
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urldate = {2026-11-06}
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