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briar

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Noun

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bri=ar

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun briar has 4 senses

briar(n = noun.plant) brier, eglantine, rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier - Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips; Array

is a kind of rose, rosebush

briar(n = noun.plant) 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; Array

is a member of genus smilax, smilax

is a kind of vine

Derived form adjective briary₁

briar(n = noun.plant) 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; Array

is a kind of erica, true heath

has parts: briarroot

briar(n = noun.artifact) briar pipe - a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath; Array

is a kind of pipe, tobacco pipe

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CIDE DICTIONARY

briar, n.

Same as Brier. [1913 Webster]

briar, n. [OE. brere, brer, AS. brēr, brær; cf. Ir. briar prickle, thorn, brier, pin, Gael. preas bush, brier, W. prys, prysg.].

A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax. [1913 Webster]
Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings. [1913 Webster]
"The thorns and briers of reproof." [1913 Webster]

Brier root, the root of the southern Smilax laurifolia and Smilax Walteri; -- used for tobacco pipes. See also 2nd brier. -- Cat brier, Green brier, several species of Smilax (Smilax rotundifolia, etc.) -- Sweet brier (Rosa rubiginosa). See Sweetbrier. -- Yellow brier, the Rosa Eglantina.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

briar, var. of BRIER(1).

briar, var. of BRIER(2).

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THESAURUS

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

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