» briar

Words people most associate with “briar”:

  1. patch,
  2. liar,
  3. rose

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Noun (4 meanings)

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

sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria

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  • rose, rosebush (noun) - any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses

2. 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.

bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, brier, briar, Smilax rotundifolia

briar is a type of:
  • vine (noun) - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
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3. evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes.

tree heath, briar, brier, Erica arborea

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  • briarroot (noun) - hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea

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

briar, briar pipe

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