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Briar vs. Brier: What's the Difference?

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.
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Brier

A pipe made from the root of this plant or from a similar wood.

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
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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.

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}.

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

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