wild brier


noun

the dog rose, Rosa canina.
the sweetbrier, Rosa eglanteria.
any other brier growing wild.

Example sentences from the Web for wild brier

  • Tangled masses of wild-brier and lichens surrounded its base, and pushed their way in through the open, dismantled doorway.

  • There was a sort of rugged entrance at its base, over which the wild-brier and honeysuckle had formed a natural arch.

    Bits of Blarney |R. Shelton Mackenzie
  • There was a wild-brier rose there that had been planted by Mrs. Marsden's grandmother.

  • They were only wild-brier roses; the real roses, as she called them, grew but reluctantly in this Northern air.

    Anne |Constance Fenimore Woolson

British Dictionary definitions for wild brier

wild brier

noun

another name for wild rose