Brier
Bri´er Pronunciation: brī´ẽr
| n. | 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.
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| 1. | the white heath Erica arborea. | |||||||||||||
| 2. | a smoking pipe made of the root of the brier{1}. | |||||||||||||
| Noun | 1. | brier - tangled mass of prickly plants Synonyms: brier patch, brierpatch |
| 2. | brier - a thorny stem or twig | |
| 3. |  brier - Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips | |
| 4. | brier - 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 | |
| 5. | brier - evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes |