Definitions

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word sweetbriar.

Examples

  • Eglantine is, according to the encyclopedia, a type of wild rose often called sweetbriar, but it is also often been used as a place or character name in English poetry.

    Archive 2007-08-01 tanita davis 2007

  • Eglantine is, according to the encyclopedia, a type of wild rose often called sweetbriar, but it is also often been used as a place or character name in English poetry.

    The WritingYA Weblog: The One Shot World Tour: Best Read With Vegemite! tanita davis 2007

  • Firesong had grown up around the gray and brown of lightbark and willow, sighing-leaf, loversroot and sweetbriar, but the overcast and mud of Hardorn were different, even if the colors were the same as those Vale plants and trees.

    Widows and Orphans R. Daniel Lester 2010

  • The two boys the whole way came with offerings of wild honeysuckle and sweetbriar, the grateful nosegays of all-diffusing nature, to the coach windows, each carefully presenting the most fragrant to Indiana; for

    Camilla 2008

  • I want to plant antique flowers in beds here, separated by sweetbriar hedges, but I wanted to wait and ask you what you particularly like.

    The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007

  • I want to plant antique flowers in beds here, separated by sweetbriar hedges, but I wanted to wait and ask you what you particularly like.

    The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007

  • The standards to be roses; juniper; hory; berberries (but here and there, because of the smell of their blossoms); red currants; gooseberries; rosemary; bays; sweetbriar; and such like.

    The Essays 2007

  • I want to plant antique flowers in beds here, separated by sweetbriar hedges, but I wanted to wait and ask you what you particularly like.

    The Wayward Muse Elizabeth Hickey 2007

  • I recollect Peggotty and I peeping out at them from my little window; I recollect how closely they seemed to be examining the sweetbriar between them, as they strolled along; and how, from being in a perfectly angelic temper, Peggotty turned cross in a moment, and brushed my hair the wrong way, excessively hard.

    David Copperfield 2007

  • It was a very fine evening, and my mother and he had another stroll by the sweetbriar, while I was sent in to get my tea.

    David Copperfield 2007

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.