BRIER

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

  synonyms : briar , erica arborea , tree heath

• (noun) 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

  synonyms : briar , bullbrier , catbrier , greenbrier , horse brier , horse-brier , smilax rotundifolia

• (noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

  synonyms : briar , eglantine , rosa eglanteria , sweetbriar , sweetbrier

• (noun) tangled mass of prickly plants

  synonyms : brier patch , brierpatch

• (noun) a thorny stem or twig

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