| NOUN | plant | briar, sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria | Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips |
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| plant | briar, bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, brier, Smilax rotundifolia | a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough / tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries | |
| plant | briar, tree heath, brier, Erica arborea | evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes | |
| artifact | briar, briar pipe | a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath |
| Sounds | bray'er | |
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| Rhymes | acquire ... wire: 63 rhymes with ayer... | |
| Meaning | Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips. | |
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| Synonyms | sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria | |
| Broader | rose, rosebush | Any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses |
| Spanish | eglantina | |
| Catalan | eglantine | |
| Meaning | A very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough / tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries. | |
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| Synonyms | bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, brier, Smilax rotundifolia | |
| Member of | Smilax, genus Smilax | sometimes placed in Smilacaceae |
| Broader | vine | A plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface |
| Spanish | bullbrier, catbrier | |
| Catalan | bullbrier, catbrier | |
| Adjectives | briary | having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. |
| Meaning | 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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| Synonyms | tree heath, brier, Erica arborea | |
| Parts | briarroot | Hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea |
| Broader | erica, true heath | Any plant of the genus Erica |
| Catalan | Erica arborea | |
| Meaning | A pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath. | |
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| Synonym | briar pipe | |
| Broader | pipe, tobacco pipe | A tube with a small bowl at one end |
| Spanish | pipa de brezo | |
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