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Meanings of briar in английском
португальский
urze-molar 
Evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes.
A very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries.
See moreEurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips.
Синонимы
Examples for "eglantine"
Examples for "eglantine"
1
You are the eglantine in human form, and often quite as briery.
2
She was then a lily, but a lily grafted into an eglantine.
3
The hedges were bright with the pure flowers of the eglantine.
4
The sisters had called it an eglantine, but it was not an eglantine.
5
But Sidonie cared no more for lilies of the valley than for eglantine.
1
The owl hooted, a scent of sweetbriar crept into his nostrils.
2
Is the sweetbriar enamoured of the air?
3
She pushed open the gate and ran up the slope of the yard between the hedges of sweetbriar.
4
It was the sweetbriar hedge that made me decide to miss the 9.15.
5
They were in bloom, and so were the speedwells, eglantines, thistles, and the sweetbriar that sprang up from the thickets.
1
The man who painted it didn't know a sweetbrier from a thistle.
2
The Cardinal was hatched in a thicket of sweetbrier and blackberry.
3
Bushes of sweetbrier grew in fragrant little forests as tall as the fences.
4
Wild roses and sweetbrier sent up their evening incense to the radiant sky.
5
And I gathered for her two or three sprays of sweetbrier.
Usage of briar in английском
1
The sweet-briar and cabbage-roses and southernwood filled the caravan with their fragrance.
2
They have left Barbie back at Sweet-briar, finishing up the breakfast service.
3
Some apple trees and sweet-briar still in bloom, and broom generally so.
4
Trees come more little tween of they, and briar is come more.
5
Blackberries! Ayla said, sliding off Whinney and rushing to the briar patch.
6
The Senator looked puzzled as he thoughtfully tamped tobacco into his briar.
7
He hurried to where Mrs. Peter was hiding under a sweet-briar bush.
8
Summerlee was sitting up and stuffing some tobacco into his old briar.
9
But a cold jealousy coiled around her heart like a thorny briar.
10
There were hedges of sweet briar, acres of lupins, purple and yellow.
11
Born and bred in a briar bush, he jeers and hops off.
12
Inside, a night watchman lounged behind a desk, smoking a blackened briar.
13
And at that chance utterance Willoughby's briar pipe ceased suddenly to bubble.
14
Did any one ever see such a mass of weed and briar?
15
The humble briar leaf throws up great colour at this time of year.
16
Twice he cleaned the old briar; still there was no improvement.
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Briar through the time
Briar across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common