Sweetbrier

Alternative forms

• sweetbriar, sweet-breare obsolete

Origin

sweet + brier

Full definition of sweetbrier

Noun

1. A Eurasian rose, , having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers and red hips
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.11:Yet both in flowres doe live, and love thee beare,
  The one a Paunce, the other a sweet-breare ….

Synonyms

• eglantine