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BRIER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
Synonyms:
briar; brier; Erica arborea; tree heath
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("brier" is a kind of...):
erica; true heath (any plant of the genus Erica)
Meronyms (parts of "brier"):
briarroot (hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea)
Sense 2
Meaning:
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; brier; bullbrier; catbrier; greenbrier; horse-brier; horse brier; Smilax rotundifolia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("brier" is a kind of...):
vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)
Holonyms ("brier" is a member of...):
genus Smilax; Smilax (sometimes placed in Smilacaceae)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
Synonyms:
briar; brier; eglantine; Rosa eglanteria; sweetbriar; sweetbrier
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("brier" is a kind of...):
rose; rosebush (any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Tangled mass of prickly plants
Synonyms:
brier; brier patch; brierpatch
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("brier" is a kind of...):
botany; flora; vegetation (all the plant life in a particular region or period)
Sense 5
Meaning:
A thorny stem or twig
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("brier" is a kind of...):
branchlet; sprig; twig (a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year)
