brier English

Meaning brier meaning

What does brier mean?

brier

— noun tangled mass of prickly plants

— noun a thorny stem or twig

— noun (= sweetbrier) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

— noun (= tree heath) evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes

— noun (= bullbrier) 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 brier synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as brier?

brier English » English

briar

tree heath

sweetbrier

sweetbriar

horse-brier

horse brier

greenbrier

eglantine

catbrier

bullbrier

Smilax rotundifolia

thorn

dog rose

brierpatch

brier patch

Rosa eglanteria

Erica arborea

wild rose

white heather

thistle

spine

heather

heath

bristle

brierwood

brier-wood

briarwood

Topics brier topics

What do people use brier to talk about?

Universe, creation Plant

Grass, herb, vine

• What general types of small plants are there?
  herb grass vine aquatic bulb bulbous briar brier burr cactus cane creeper cultivated fern flowering gourd reed sod sprawling thorny weed wild