Definition of "sweetbriar" [sweetbriar]

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

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "Eglantine is, according to the encyclopedia, a type of wild rose often called sweetbriar, but it is also often been used as a place or character name in English poetry."
• "Firesong had grown up around the gray and brown of lightbark and willow, sighing-leaf, loversroot and sweetbriar, but the overcast and mud of Hardorn were different, even if the colors were the same as those Vale plants and trees."
• "The two boys the whole way came with offerings of wild honeysuckle and sweetbriar, the grateful nosegays of all-diffusing nature, to the coach windows, each carefully presenting the most fragrant to Indiana; for"