briar

Plural: briars

Noun

• Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
• 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
• evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
• a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath
• Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera
• Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
• White heath (Erica arborea), a thorny Mediterranean shrub.
• A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.

Synonyms

briar pipe, brier, bullbrier, catbrier, eglantine, Erica arborea, greenbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, Rosa eglanteria, Smilax rotundifolia, sweetbriar, sweetbrier, tree heath