sweetbrier n 1: Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips [syn: {sweetbrier}, {sweetbriar}, {brier}, {briar}, {eglantine}, {Rosa eglanteria}]
Sweetbrier \Sweet"bri`er\, n. (Bot.) A kind of rose ({Rosa rubiginosa}) with minutely glandular and fragrant foliage. The small-flowered sweetbrier is {Rosa micrantha}. [1913 Webster]