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Definition of Briar
1. Noun. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips.
Generic synonyms: Rose, Rosebush
2. 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.
Group relationships: Genus Smilax, Smilax
Generic synonyms: Vine
Derivative terms: Briary
3. Noun. Evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes.
Generic synonyms: Erica, True Heath
Terms within: Briarroot
4. Noun. A pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath.
Definition of Briar
1. n. Same as Brier.
Definition of Briar
1. Noun. Any of a number of unrelated thicket-forming thorny plants. ¹
2. Noun. A pipe made from the burl of the white heath tree. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Briar
1. brier [n -S] : BRIARY [adj] - See also: brier
Medical Definition of Briar
1. 1. A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax. 2. Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings. "The thorns and briers of reproof." (Cowper) Brier root, the root of the southern Smilax laurifolia and S. Walleri; used for tobacco pipes. Cat brier, Green brier, several species of Smilax (S. Rotundifolia, etc) Sweet brier (Rosa rubiginosa). See Sweetbrier. Yellow brier, the Rosa Eglantina. Origin: OE. Brere, brer, AS. Brer, braer; cf. Ir. Briar prickle, thorn, brier, pin, Gael. Preas bush, brier, W. Prys, prysg. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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