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brier
noun(bri-er)
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
Synonyms: briar, eglantine, rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier,
brier
noun(bri-er)
tangled mass of prickly plants
Synonyms: brier patch, brierpatch,
brier
noun(bri-er)
evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
Synonyms: briar, erica arborea, tree heath,
brier
noun(bri-er)
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
Synonyms: briar, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, smilax rotundifolia,
brier
noun(bri-er)
a thorny stem or twig

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