brier

bri·er ¹ also bri·ar  (brr)

n.

Any of several prickly plants, such as certain rosebushes or the greenbrier.

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[Middle English brer, from Old English brr.]

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brier·y adj.

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bri·er ²  (brr)

n.

Variant of briar¹.

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brier¹, briar [ˈbraɪə]

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any of various thorny shrubs or other plants, such as the sweetbrier and greenbrier

[Old English brēr, brǣr, of obscure origin]

briery , briary adj

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brier²

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) a variant spelling of briar¹

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	brier - tangled mass of prickly plants brier patch, brierpatch botany, flora, vegetation - all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China"
	2.	brier - a thorny stem or twig branchlet, sprig, twig - a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
	3.	brier - Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier rose, rosebush - any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
	4.	brier - 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 bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, Smilax rotundifolia, briar genus Smilax, Smilax - sometimes placed in Smilacaceae vine - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
	5.	brier - evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes Erica arborea, tree heath, briar erica, true heath - any plant of the genus Erica briarroot - hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea

Translations

brier

n

(= wild rose) → wilde Rose; (= bramble runner) → Ranke f; (= thorny bush) → Dornbusch m

= briar a