the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
n. Same as brier.
The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
etc. See brier, briery, etc.
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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
Word Usage
"The rosa multiflora--the rambling rose, what I call the briar rose, because it is clearly the killer rose that protected Sleeping Beauty's castle for a century--is sending its arms across the path in the undiscovered country."