Briar vs. Brier

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

Variant of brier1.

Variant of briar1.

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

Alternative spelling of briar

(figurative) Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.

A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.

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

Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.

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

The white heath Erica arborea.

Same as Brier.

A smoking pipe made of the root of the brier{1}.

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

Tangled mass of prickly plants

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

A thorny stem or twig

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

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

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

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

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