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

noun. the white heath Erica arborea.

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

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

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

noun. the root of the southern Smilax laurifolia and Smilax Walteri; -- used for tobacco pipes. See also 2nd brier.

noun. several species of Smilax (Smilax rotundifolia, etc.)

noun. undefined

noun. See Sweetbrier.

noun. the Rosa Eglantina.

noun. A thorny Mediterranean shrub.

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

noun. Any unpleasantry in general.

noun. tangled mass of prickly plants

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

noun. evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes

noun. 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

noun. 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."

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briar  green brier  

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