Brier

nounid 23126·updated May 18, 2026
verified

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

Unknownauthoritativeglossary_import_default_pending_classifier

Sensitivity

unclassified

Information Class

unclassified

Variants

synonym
briarbrier patchbrierpatch
plural
Briers
possessive
Brier's
pluralpossessive
Briers'

Framework definitions

Wordset Dictionary5 sensesview framework →
§1
evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
§2
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
§3
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
§4
tangled mass of prickly plants
§5
a thorny stem or twig

Outgoing relationships

No outgoing triples
This term is not the subject of any RDF-style relationship yet.

Incoming relationships

No incoming triples
No other term currently asserts a relationship to this one.