briar
noun
1 briar
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips.
synonyms: brier, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier.
Dutch: egelantier
Polish: róża szkocka, róża rdzawa
2 briar
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: brier, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia.
3 briar
Evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes.
synonyms: brier, Erica arborea, tree heath.
Polish: wrzosiec drzewiasty
4 briar
A pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath.
synonym: briar pipe.
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