SWEETBRIAR

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does sweetbriar mean? 

• SWEETBRIAR (noun)
  The noun SWEETBRIAR has 1 sense:

1. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

  Familiarity information: SWEETBRIAR used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SWEETBRIAR (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

briar; brier; eglantine; Rosa eglanteria; sweetbriar; sweetbrier

Hypernyms ("sweetbriar" is a kind of...):

rose; rosebush (any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses)

 Context examples 

It was a very fine evening, and my mother and he had another stroll by the sweetbriar, while I was sent in to get my tea.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

So I was sent upstairs to Peggotty to be made spruce; and in the meantime Mr. Murdstone dismounted, and, with his horse's bridle drawn over his arm, walked slowly up and down on the outer side of the sweetbriar fence, while my mother walked slowly up and down on the inner to keep him company.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

I recollect Peggotty and I peeping out at them from my little window; I recollect how closely they seemed to be examining the sweetbriar between them, as they strolled along; and how, from being in a perfectly angelic temper, Peggotty turned cross in a moment, and brushed my hair the wrong way, excessively hard.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)