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Briers
Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.
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noun
- 1
Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.
- 2
Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
noun
- 1
The white heath, Erica arborea, a thorny Mediterranean shrub.
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A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.
💡 Words with a Similar Meaning to "Briers"
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| Word | Definition |
|---|---|
| sweetbriarnoun | Alternative form of sweetbrier. [A Eurasian rose (Rosa rubiginosa, syn. Rosa eglanteria), having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers, and red hips.] |
| briarnoun | Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera. |
| eglantinenoun | A Eurasian rose (Rosa rubiginosa, syn. Rosa eglanteria), having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers and red hips. |
| sweetbriernoun | A Eurasian rose (Rosa rubiginosa, syn. Rosa eglanteria), having prickly stems, fragrant leaves, pink flowers, and red hips. |
| tree heathnoun | The flowering plant Erica arborea, native to east Africa and the Mediterranean. |
| greenbriernoun | Any of several American prickly woody vines of the genus Smilax. |
| brierpatchnoun | tangled mass of prickly plants |
| bullbriernoun | 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 |
| catbriernoun | Synonym of greenbrier. |
| erica arborea | Erica arborea, the tree heath or tree heather, is a species of flowering plant (angiosperms) in the heather family Ericaceae, native to the Mediterranean Basin and Ethiopia, Kenya and Tanzania in East Africa. |
| horsebriernoun | — |
| rosa eglanterianoun | eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips |
| smilax rotundifolia | Smilax rotundifolia, also known as roundleaf greenbrier or common greenbrier, is a woody vine native to the southeastern and eastern United States and eastern Canada. |
| blackberrynoun | The soft fruit borne by this shrub, formed of a black (when ripe) cluster of drupelets. |
| brierlynoun | A surname. |
| brierleynoun | A surname. |
| briarsnoun | A surname. |
| brimernoun | A surname. |
| bristednoun | A surname. |
| brimnoun | The topmost lip or rim of a container, or a natural feature shaped like a container. |
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