sweetbrier Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
    briar; sweetbriar; Rosa eglanteria; brier; eglantine.

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Sweet"bri`er noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) A kind of rose (Rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha.

Webster 1913