sweetbrier
English
Rosa eglanteria
Alternative forms
- sweetbriar, sweet-breare (obsolete)
Etymology
sweet + brier
Noun
sweetbrier (plural sweetbriers)
- A Eurasian rose, Rosa eglanteria, having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers and red hips
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938:
- Yet both in flowres doe live, and love thee beare, / The one a Paunce, the other a sweet-breare […].
- 1942, Emily Carr, “The Blessing”, in The Book of Small:
- 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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Synonyms
- eglantine