briar Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
sweetbrier; sweetbriar; Rosa eglanteria; brier; eglantine.
noun 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
catbrier; horse brier; greenbrier; Smilax rotundifolia; bullbrier; brier; horse-brier.
noun evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
tree heath; Erica arborea; brier.
noun a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath
briar pipe.