Evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes.
Tangled mass of prickly plants.
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.
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Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips.
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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 .
1 I am afraid you will turn me loose in the brier patch.
2 There she saw a wee Robin Redbreast hopping on a brier bush.
3 Some smoked clays, but for the Arcadia Mixture give me a brier .
4 Between his teeth was a black brier pipe, which he puffed lazily.
5 The more he begged, the faster Gray Wolf hurried to the brier patch.
6 Suddenly his head was still; a spray of a brier -bush was swaying gently.
7 Pipemakers have been asking if our country offers a substitute for brier root.
8 The same rose - brier is nodding its untrimmed boughs by the door.
9 She is the brier , which hath sharply taught the tender flesh of each.
10 The ground beneath was planted only with aspidiums and brier roses.
11 If a piece of brush or brier sticks to the dress, name it.
12 I'm still stealing turkey eggs and running through a brier patch.
13 Behind her was the trellis of the porch, with its sweet - brier hanging over it.
14 A bank of brier and nettles lay before the mouth.
15 The brush parted and Ivy, Green - brier 's cook, stumbled into view.
16 The air smelled faintly-sour of brier , and was as still as boughs of snow.
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