About The Word Briar

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Briar

Briar Meaning & Definition
Briar Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Briar?

[n] a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath
[n] evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
[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
[n] Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

Synonyms | Synonyms for Briar: briar pipe | brier | bullbrier | catbrier | eglantine | Erica arborea | greenbrier | horsebrier | Rosa eglanteria | Smilax rotundifolia | sweetbriar | sweetbrier | tree heath

Related Terms | Find terms related to Briar: adherent | adhesive | barnacle | bramble | brier | brier bush | bristle | bulldog | burr | bush | cactus | catchweed | cement | cleavers | decal | decalcomania | glue | goose grass | gunk | leech | limpet | molasses | mucilage | needle | nettle | paste | pine needle | plaster | prickle | quill | remora | scrub | shrub | shrubbery | spicule | spiculum | spike | spikelet | spine | sticker | syrup | thistle | thorn | yucca

See Also | briarroot | erica | genus Smilax | pipe | rose | Smilax | tobacco pipe | true heath | vine

Briar In Webster's Dictionary

\Bri"ar\, n. Same as {Brier}.

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