briar – מילון אנגלי-אנגלי
briar
n.
thorny plant or bush, wild rose bush; branch from a thorny plant (also brier)
n.
tobacco pipe made from the root of the white heath
Brier
Briar,
Briars or
Brier may refer to:
Briar (thicket) (also spelt
brier), common name for a number of unrelated thorny plants that form thickets.
briar
Noun
1. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
(synonym) sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria
(hypernym) rose
2. 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
(synonym) bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, brier, Smilax rotundifolia
(hypernym) vine
(member-holonym) Smilax, genus Smilax
3. evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
(synonym) tree heath, brier, Erica arborea
(hypernym) erica, true heath
(part-meronym) briarroot
4. a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath
(synonym) briar pipe
(hypernym) pipe, tobacco pipe
briar
Rzecz.
dzika róża
Briar
(n.)
Same as Brier.
(n.)
Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
(n.)
A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), edited by Noah Porter.
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