briar
(noun)
noun
1. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
Similar word(s): brier, eglantine, sweetbriar, sweetbrier
Definition categories: plant, rose, rosebush
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
Similar word(s): brier, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier
Definition categories: plant, vine
3. evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
Similar word(s): brier
Definition categories: plant, erica
4. a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath
Definition categories: man–made, pipe