Briar vs. Brier

Briar vs. Brier — Is There a Difference?
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Difference Between Briar and Brier

Briarnoun

Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.

Briernoun

tangled mass of prickly plants

Briarnoun

(figurative) Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.

Briernoun

a thorny stem or twig

Briarnoun

The white heath, Erica arborea, a thorny Mediterranean shrub.

Briernoun

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

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Briarnoun

A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.

Briernoun

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

Briarnoun

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

Briernoun

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

Briarnoun

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

Briarnoun

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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Briarnoun

a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath