Sweetbrier

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  • noun. A rose (Rosa rubiginosa syn. R. eglanteria) native to Eurasia, having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, bright pink flowers, and scarlet hips.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. The; eglantine, Rosa rubiginosa, a native of Europe and central Asia, introduced in the eastern United States.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. A kind of rose (Rosa rubiginosa) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is Rosa micrantha.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A Eurasian rose, Rosa eglanteria, having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers and red hips
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  • noun. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
    • Word Usage
    "His wife led the way up a little winding path, which, after threading some thickets of sweetbrier and honeysuckle, conducted to the back-door of a small garden."
    cross-reference
    sweetbrier-sponge  
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    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rose  rosebush  
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    Words that are found in similar contexts
    Euphorbia  Hawthorne  Osage  Thom  arbor-vitae  
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    eglantine  
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