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Definition of Sweetbrier
1. Noun. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips.
Generic synonyms: Rose, Rosebush
Definition of Sweetbrier
1. n. A kind of rose (Rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha.
Definition of Sweetbrier
1. Noun. A Eurasian rose, ''Rosa eglanteria'', having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers and red hips ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Sweetbrier
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweetbrier
Literary usage of Sweetbrier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. British Farmer's Magazine (1873)
"sweetbrier 30th, calved July 30, 1868, by Romeo (24986) ; Woman in White by Marmaduke
... sweetbrier 35th, calved June 24, 1870, by Second Earl of Jam ..."
2. Poetry of the Seasons by Mary Isabella Lovejoy (1898)
"THE sweetbrier. OUR sweet, autumnal western-scented wind Robs of its odors none
so sweet a flower, In all the blooming waste it left behind, ..."
3. The Chief American Poets: Selected Poems by Bryant, Poe, Emerson, Longfellow by Curtis Hidden Page (1905)
"I matched with Scotland's heathery billa The sweetbrier and the clover; 70 With
Ayr and Doon, my native rills, Their wood hymns chanting over. ..."
4. Barbizon Days: Millet, Corot, Rousseau, Barye by Charles Sprague Smith (1902)
"A great white rose vine, inquisitive and artful, seems to be trying to scale the
windows, and a hedge of sweetbrier and elders, twined about ..."
5. Recollections of Samuel Breck: With Passages from His Note-books. (1771-1862.) by Samuel Breck, Horace Elisha Scudder (1877)
"CHAPTER I. sweetbrier — Ancestry — Earliest Recollections — The Dark Day— Benjamin
Andrews—John Andrews—Tracy's Dinner to D'Estaing ..."
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