sweetbrier

English

Rosa eglanteria

sweetbrier rosehips

Alternative forms

• sweet-brier, sweet brier, sweetbriar, sweet-briar, sweet briar
• sweet-breare (obsolete)

Etymology

From sweet +‎ brier.

Noun

sweetbrier (plural sweetbriers)

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

   Synonym: eglantine

   • 1854 August 9, Henry D[avid] Thoreau, Walden; or, Life in the Woods, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, →OCLC:

     Is it some ill-fed village hound yielding to the instinct of the chase? or the lost pig which is said to be in these woods, whose tracks I saw after the rain? It comes on apace; my sumachs and sweet-briers tremble.

   • 1878, Robert Louis Stevenson, An Inland Voyage, London: C[harles] Kegan Paul & Co., […], →OCLC:

     But some woods are more coquettish in their habits; and the breath of the forest of Mormal, as it came aboard upon us that showery afternoon, was perfumed with nothing less delicate than sweetbrier.

Translations

Eurasian rose — see eglantine

Further reading

• Rosa rubiginosa on Wikipedia.Wikipedia