sweetbrier

  • 101Rosa eglanteria — noun Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips • Syn: ↑sweetbrier, ↑sweetbriar, ↑brier, ↑briar, ↑eglantine • Hypernyms: ↑rose, ↑rosebush …

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  • 102rosebush — noun any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses • Syn: ↑rose • Hypernyms: ↑shrub, ↑bush • Hyponyms: ↑mountain rose, ↑Rosa pendulina, ↑ground rose …

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  • 103hedge rose — noun : any of various wild roses that tend to invade and thrive in hedgerows: as a. : dog rose b. : sweetbrier c. : macartney rose …

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  • 104bed|e|guar — bed|e|gar or bed|e|guar «BEHD uh gahr», noun. spongy excrescence or gall produced on rosebushes, especially on the sweetbrier, by various gallflies. ╂[< French bédegar, bédeguar < Persian bādāwar] …

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  • 105bed|e|gar — or bed|e|guar «BEHD uh gahr», noun. spongy excrescence or gall produced on rosebushes, especially on the sweetbrier, by various gallflies. ╂[< French bédegar, bédeguar < Persian bādāwar] …

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  • 106eg|lan|tine — «EHG luhn tyn, teen», noun. 1. a wild rose with a tall, prickly stem and single, pink flowers; sweetbrier. 2. any one of certain other plants, such as the woodbine and dog rose. ╂[< Middle French eglantine (diminutive) < Old French aiglent… …

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