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Noun (5 meanings)

1. tangled mass of prickly plants.

brier, brierpatch, brier patch

brier is a type of:

vegetation, flora, botany (noun) - all the plant life in a particular region or period

2. a thorny stem or twig.

brier is a type of:

branchlet, twig, sprig (noun) - a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division)

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

sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria

brier is a type of:

rose, rosebush (noun) - any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses

4. 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, greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, brier, briar, Smilax rotundifolia

brier is a type of:

vine (noun) - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface

brier is a member of:

Smilax, genus Smilax (noun) - sometimes placed in Smilacaceae

brier is derivationally related to:

barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny (adjective) - having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

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

tree heath, briar, brier, Erica arborea

brier is a type of:

erica, true heath (noun) - any plant of the genus Erica

parts of brier:

briarroot (noun) - hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea