briar

Primary Meanings of briar

1.	n	Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
2.	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
3.	n	evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes

Full Definitions of briar

1

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

Synonyms:: Rosa eglanteria, brier, eglantine, sweetbriar, sweetbrier

Type of:: rose, rosebush
any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses

2

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

Synonyms:: Smilax rotundifolia, brier, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse brier, horse-brier

Type of:: vine
a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface

3

n 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:: erica, true heath
any plant of the genus Erica

n a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath

Synonyms:: briar pipe

Type of:: pipe, tobacco pipe
a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco