sweetbrier

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sweetbrier (plural sweetbriers)

  1. A Eurasian rose, Rosa eglanteria, having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers and red hips
    • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.11:
      Yet both in flowres doe live, and love thee beare, / The one a Paunce, the other a sweet-breare […].

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