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n. Any of several prickly plants, such as certain rosebushes or the greenbrier.

n. Variant of briar1.

n. A thorny Mediterranean shrub.

n. A pipe made from the roots of that shrub.

n. Any unpleasantry in general.

n. A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.

n. Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.

n. the white heath Erica arborea.

n. a smoking pipe made of the root of the brier{1}.

n. A prickly plant or shrub in general; specifically, the sweetbrier or the green-brier (which see). Also spelled briar.

n. tangled mass of prickly plants

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

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

n. a thorny stem or twig

"The man and woman were employed in bruising what was called brier root, which they had dug from the forest, for food."

briar    green brier   

botany    flora    vegetation    rose    rosebush    true heath    erica    vine    twig    branchlet   

china brier    sensitive brier    chainy brier    saw-brier    sand-brier    running brier   

briar    heath    brierwood    bramble    blackberry    raspberry    loganberry   

Dyer    Meier    Meyer    Trier    acquire    attire    briar    buyer    byer    cease-fire   

brambly    briar    checkerberry    topiary    zrilm    prickly pear    holly    barberry    long-stemmed    unpruned