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Syllable division derived from spelling — this word is not in the pronouncing dictionary, so no phonetic transcription is shown rather than a guessed one.
sweetbrier is a noun meaning "Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips". It carries one recorded sense.
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for sweetbrier come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.