Brier
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
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
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evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
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Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
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tangled mass of prickly plants
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a thorny stem or twig
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- briarbrier patchbrierpatch
- plural
- Briers
- possessive
- Brier's
- pluralpossessive
- Briers'