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plural sweetbriers
A Eurasian rose (Rosa rubiginosa, syn. Rosa eglanteria), having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers and red hips quotations examples
Yet both in flowres doe live, and love thee beare, / The one a Paunce, the other a sweet-breare […].
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book III, Canto XI”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie
The mud-flats did not always smell nice although the bushes of sweet-briar on the edge of the high-water rim did their best […]
1942, Emily Carr, “The Blessing”, in The Book of Small