brier [ 'braiə ]

• n.
  • tangled mass of prickly plants

    同义词： brierpatch brier patch

  • a thorny stem or twig
  • Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

    同义词： sweetbrier sweetbriar briar eglantine Rosa eglanteria

  • 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

    同义词： bullbrier greenbrier catbrier horse brier horse-brier briar Smilax rotundifolia

  • evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes

    同义词： tree heath briar Erica arborea

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