Briar

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. A Mediterranean shrub or small tree (Erica arborea) whose hard, woody roots are used to make tobacco pipes.
  • n. A pipe made from the root of this plant or from a similar wood.
  • n. Variant of brier1.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The white heath, Erica arborea.
  • n. A pipe made from the root of this plant.
  • n. Any thorny plant, now especially a wild rose.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. Same as brier.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • etc. See brier, briery, etc.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
  • n. a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath
  • n. evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
  • n. 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
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    rose    rosebush    tobacco pipe    pipe    true heath    erica    vine   
    Variant
    Brier    brier   
    Form
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Brie   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Dyer    Meier    Meyer    Trier    acquire    attire    brier    buyer    byer    cease-fire   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    bramble    brier    sumac    underwood    hawthorn    myrtle    furze    syringa    manzanita    juniper