Definition of briar
Nouns
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
- Synonyms:
- Rosa eglanteria, brier, eglantine, sweetbriar, sweetbrier
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
- Synonyms:
- Smilax rotundifolia, brier, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse brier, horse-brier
- Type of:
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vine
a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
- Synonyms:
- Erica arborea, brier, tree heath
- Type of:
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erica, true heath
any plant of the genus Erica
a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath
- Synonyms:
- briar pipe
- Type of:
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pipe, tobacco pipe
a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
Vocabulary Lists for briar
- abaft
- abase
- abate
- abdicate
- abet
- aggravated
- astride
- binding
- bit
- blat
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