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Definition of 'briar' Princeton's WordNet 

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

2. (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

3. (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

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


Definition of 'briar' Webster Dictionary 

1. (noun) briar
same as Brier

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

3. (noun) briar
fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings



'briar' - Nearby Entries  

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