sweetbriar

Questions about sweetbriar

What does sweetbriar mean?

sweetbriar means "Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips".

How many syllables are in sweetbriar?

sweetbriar has 3 syllables and divides as swe-et-briar under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

What is another word for sweetbriar?

Close synonyms include sweetbrier, brier, briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sweetbriar a common word?

sweetbriar is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.