Briar
nounid
18555·updated May 18, 2026verified
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
polysemous
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- briar pipebrierbullbriercatbriereglantinegreenbrierhorse brierhorse-briersweetbriarsweetbriertree heath
- plural
- Briars
- possessive
- Briar's
- pluralpossessive
- Briars'
Framework definitions
- §1
- a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath
- §2
- evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
- §3
- 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
- §4
- Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
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