Definitions of briar in English
noun
(1) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips.
(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.
(3) Evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes.
(4) A pipe made from the root (briarroot.
(5) A pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath.
Examples of briar in English
(1) A briar patch
(2) Immediately, Maria snatched her hand back quicker than if it had just come into contact with a briar bush.
(3) Throughout this long afternoon, we remained motionless in the briar patch.
(4) Glen smiled at the thought of a dirty forest with trees, briars , and wild animals.
(5) The briar pipe continued to epitomise solid, dependable, common sense masculinity.
(6) On one side lay a patch of endless briars on the other a 20 ft drop to the sharp rocks and unbridled sea below.
(7) Every man present had filled his clay or briar pipes with good Virginia tobacco.
(8) The Centenier finished his coffee, while Holmes selected and filled his briar pipe .
(9) U2018You're not stupid,u2019 Bella continued, speaking more to the rose briars than to him.
synonyms of briar
briar pipe
brier
eglantine
