Noun Definition

brier

1.Definition: a thorny stem or twig

Category: Plants

2.Definition: 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

Related Noun(s):briar, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse brier, smilax rotundifolia

Category: Plants

3.Definition: Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

Related Noun(s):briar, eglantine, rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier

Category: Plants

4.Definition: evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes

Related Noun(s):briar, erica arborea, tree heath

Category: Plants

5.Definition: tangled mass of prickly plants

Related Noun(s):brier patch, brierpatch

Category: Plants