Brier (Noun)
Meaning 2
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.
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Nouns denoting plants.
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Meaning 3
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips.
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Nouns denoting plants.
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Meaning 4
Tangled mass of prickly plants.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The hikers struggled to make their way through the dense brier that had overgrown the abandoned trail.
- After years of neglect, the garden had become a brier of thorny roses and blackberry vines.
- The brier that surrounded the old cabin made it nearly invisible from the road.
- As she walked through the woods, she got her hair caught in a brier of wild roses.
- The surveyor had to fight his way through a brier of catbriars and thistles to reach the property line.
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Meaning 5
Evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes.
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Nouns denoting plants.