Briar vs. Brier

Briar and Brier Definitions
Briar
Any of several prickly plants, such as certain rosebushes or the greenbrier.
Brier
Any of several prickly plants, such as certain rosebushes or the greenbrier.
Briar
A Mediterranean shrub or small tree (Erica arborea) in the heath family, whose woody roots are used to make tobacco pipes. Also called tree heath.
Brier
A Mediterranean shrub or small tree (Erica arborea) in the heath family, whose woody roots are used to make tobacco pipes. Also called tree heath.
Briar
A pipe made from the root of this plant or from a similar wood.
Brier
A pipe made from the root of this plant or from a similar wood.
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Briar
Variant of brier1.
Brier
Variant of briar1.
Briar
Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.
Brier
Alternative spelling of briar
Briar
(figurative) Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
Brier
A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.
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Briar
The white heath (Erica arborea), a thorny Mediterranean shrub.
Brier
Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
The thorns and briers of reproof.
Briar
A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.
Brier
The white heath Erica arborea.
Briar
Same as Brier.
Brier
A smoking pipe made of the root of the brier{1}.
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Briar
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
Brier
Tangled mass of prickly plants
Briar
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
Brier
A thorny stem or twig
Briar
Evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
Brier
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
Briar
A pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath
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
Brier
Evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes