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    briar
    [ noun ]
    1. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

    2. <noun.plant>
    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. <noun.plant>
    5. evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes

    6. <noun.plant>
    7. a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath

    8. <noun.artifact>


    Briar \Bri"ar\, n.
    Same as {Brier}.


    Brier \Bri"er\, Briar \Bri"ar\ (br[imac]"[~e]r), n. [OE. brere,
    brer, AS. br[=e]r, br[ae]r; cf. Ir. briar prickle, thorn,
    brier, pin, Gael. preas bush, brier, W. prys, prysg.]
    1. A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles;
    especially, species of {Rosa}, {Rubus}, and {Smilax}.

    2. Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.

    The thorns and briers of reproof. --Cowper.

    {Brier root}, the root of the southern {Smilax laurifolia}
    and {Smilax Walteri}; -- used for tobacco pipes. See also
    2nd {brier}.

    {Cat brier}, {Green brier}, several species of Smilax
    ({Smilax rotundifolia}, etc.)

    {Sweet brier} ({Rosa rubiginosa}). See {Sweetbrier}.

    {Yellow brier}, the {Rosa Eglantina}.

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