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sweet briarnoun1A Eurasian wild rose with fragrant leaves and flowers.- Rosa rubiginosa, family Rosaceae.
The entrance to the inn was adorned with sweetbriars and hawthorn hedges....- Recently it has commissioned a survey and also organised the planting of 35 new trees (oak, beech, ash, chestnut and field maple, hawthorn, sweetbriars) to replace decaying forest trees.
2West Indian A spiny acacia with fragrant yellow flowers.- Genus Acacia, family Leguminosae: A. farnesiana, an Old World tree which is grown throughout the tropics and yields an essential oil used in perfumery, and the tropical American A. tortuosa.
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