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Briarroot

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. The woody root of the briar.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea

Word Usage

""We would be wuss nor fools if we did -- with them human wildcats a-- watchin 'of us," and he began to puff vigorously at his short stump of a briarroot pipe."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

root

Variant

brier root