noun
- plural of sweetbrier; wild roses with fragrant leaves and pink flowers, also called eglantine
Usage: botanical
Examples
- The sweetbriers grew wild along the country lane.
- She gathered branches of sweetbriers for their pleasant scent.
- The old garden was overgrown with sweetbriers and brambles.
- Sweetbriers produce small red hips in autumn.
- The cottage was surrounded by hedges of sweetbriers.
- Birds nested among the thorny sweetbriers.