sweet-briar

A form of sweetbrier — A Eurasian rose (Rosa rubiginosa, syn. Rosa eglanteria), having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers, and red hips.

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Meanings

nounsweet-briar (plural sweet-briars)

plural sweet-briars

  1. alternativeAlternative form of sweetbrier.

    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 […]

    1942, Emily Carr, “The Blessing”, in The Book of Small, Toronto, Ont.: Oxford University Press, →OCLC
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APA

sweet-briar. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sweet-briar

MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sweet-briar,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sweet-briar.

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