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Random House Webster's College Dictionary

1. (n.) brier
a prickly plant or shrub, esp. the sweetbrier or a catbrier.

2.  brier
a tangled mass of prickly plants.

3.  brier
a thorny stem or twig.

4. (n.) brier
the white heath, Erica arborea, of France and Corsica, the woody root of which is used for making tobacco pipes.

5.  brier
a pipe made of brierroot.

Etymology: (1865–70; earlier bruyer < F bruyère, OF < Gallo-Latin *brūcāria, der. of *brūc- heather)

Definition of 'Brier'

Princeton's WordNet

1. (noun) brier, brierpatch, brier patch
tangled mass of prickly plants

2. (noun) brier
a thorny stem or twig

3. (noun) sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

4. (noun) bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, brier, briar, Smilax rotundifolia
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

5. (noun) tree heath, briar, brier, Erica arborea
evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes

Definition of 'Brier'

Webster Dictionary

1. (noun) Brier
alt. of Briar

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