sweetbrier

Dictionary: sweet·bri·er sweet·bri·ar (swēt'brī'ər) pronunciation

also n.
A Eurasian rose (Rosa eglanteria) having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, bright pink flowers, and scarlet hips. Also called eglantine.

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Britannica Concise Encyclopedia: sweetbrier

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Small, prickly wild rose (Rosa eglanteria, or R. rubiginosa) with fragrant foliage and numerous small pink flowers, native to Europe and western Asia. Widely naturalized in North America, it grows along roadsides and in pastures from eastern Canada southwest to Tennessee and Kansas. The shrub form, which can grow 6 ft (2 m) high, is useful for screening out traffic noise and beautifying highways.

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Columbia Encyclopedia: sweetbrier

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sweetbrier, sweetbriar, or eglantine (ĕg'ləntīn, -tēn) [O. Fr. from Lat.,=needle], wild rose of Europe (Rosa eglanteria), cultivated and now naturalized in the United States. The bush has fragrant foliage, and in the spring it has pink blossoms (usually single), which are followed by rose hips sometimes used in preserves. Sweetbrier is classified in the division Magnoliophyta, class Magnoliopsida, order Rosales, family Rosaceae.

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The noun has one meaning:

Meaning #1: Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
Synonyms: sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria

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	eglantine
	brier (plant)
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