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Brier

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Noun

1. brier, brier patch, brierpatch

tangled mass of prickly plants

2. brier

a thorny stem or twig

3. briar, brier, eglantine, rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier

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

4. briar, brier, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, 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. briar, brier, erica arborea, tree heath

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

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Brier

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noun
any of various thorny shrubs or other plants, such as the sweetbrier and greenbrier
noun
a variant spelling of briar1

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Brier

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noun
1. 
any prickly or thorny bush, as a bramble or wild rose
2. 
a growth of such bushes
3. 
a twig of a brier
noun
1. 
an evergreen shrub or tree (Erica arborea) of the heath family, native to S Europe, with needlelike leaves and white flowers
2. 
its root, esp. the root burl, often used to make tobacco pipes
3.  occas. sp. of
briar2 (sense 1)

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Brier

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n.
Any of several prickly plants, such as certain rosebushes or the greenbrier.
n.
1. A Mediterranean shrub or small tree (Erica arborea) in the heath family, whose woody roots are used to make tobacco pipes. Also called tree heath.
2. A pipe made from the root of this plant or from a similar wood.
n.
Variant of briar1.

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