What is "briar" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does briar mean in English? Meaning of briar definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "briar" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "briar": Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

Noun

  • Meaning: Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
  • Synonyms: briar brier eglantine rosa eglanteria sweetbriar sweetbrier
  • Hypernyms: rose rosebush
  • Pronunciation in UK: /bɹʌɪə/

    Meaning of "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

    Noun

  • Meaning: 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
  • Synonyms: briar brier bullbrier catbrier greenbrier horse brier horse-brier smilax rotundifolia
  • Hypernyms: vine
  • Pronunciation in UK: /bɹʌɪə/

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

    Noun

  • Meaning: evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
  • Synonyms: briar brier erica arborea tree heath
  • Hypernyms: erica true heath
  • Part Holonyms: briarroot
  • Pronunciation in UK: /bɹʌɪə/

    Meaning of "briar": a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath

    Noun

  • Meaning: a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath
  • Synonyms: briar briar pipe
  • Hypernyms: pipe tobacco pipe
  • Pronunciation in UK: /bɹʌɪə/

    Synonyms:

    shrubbery, plant, hinterland, scrub, wilderness, jungle, vine, backwoods, outback, hedge, forest, bramble, thicket, brush, backcountry, creeper, scrubland, chaparral, boscage, the wild, knob, cut, tunnel, nut, accent, pad, halo, buzz, circle, notch, rib, ring, washer, whetstone, sticker,

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