sweetbriar

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

Definition

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

By Miss GIBERNE, Author of "The Dalrymples," &c. SWEETBRIAR; or, Doings in Priorsthorpe Magna. — Blown to Bits; or, The Lonely Man of Rakata, R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
They were in bloom, and so were the speedwells, eglantines, thistles, and the sweetbriar that sprang up from the thickets. — Madame Bovary, Gustave Flaubert
All about her feet bloomed the wild roses, and a tall bush of sweetbriar nodded caressingly over her fair head. — Fairy dreams : $b or, Wanderings in Elf-land, Jane G. (Jane Goodwin) Austin

sweetbrier, brier, briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria

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