sweetbrier

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English

Rosa eglanteria
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Etymology

sweet +‎ brier

Noun

sweetbrier (plural sweetbriers)

  1. A Eurasian rose, Lua error in Module:parameters at line 828: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., 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 […].
    • 1942, Emily Carr, The Book of Small, "The Blessing," [1]
      The mud-flats did not always smell nice although the bushes of sweet-briar on the edge of the high-water rim did their best […]

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