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briar::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | brier, eglantine, rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier |
| Type of | rosebush, rose |
briar::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | briar pipe |
| Type of | tobacco pipe, pipe |
briar::noun | Spocien Dictionary
evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | brier, erica arborea, tree heath |
| Type of | true heath, erica |
briar::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Synonyms | brier, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, smilax rotundifolia |
| Type of | vine |
| Derivation | briary |
Examples of briar
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Horse briar makes changes of it's own on a bed of oak leaves on Linville Gorge.
From the charlotteobserver.com
Briar Cliff's Kyle Gerdes set school records for completions, attempts and yards.
From the omaha.com
Briar Cliff's 39 turnovers last season put its defense in bad situations all year.
From the omaha.com
There are plenty of places to hide in this vast briar patch of dos and don'ts.
From the theatlantic.com
Briar Patch is a historic farm on 47 acres with mountain views in Middleburg.
From the washingtonpost.com
Having a separate business entity, though, creates another briar patch at tax time.
From the forbes.com
Briar Creek Golf Course, an 18-hole public course, is at 2347 Pangburn Road.
From the timesunion.com
Briar Cliff lost its third straight, falling to Southern Oregon 25-11, 25-17, 25-20.
From the omaha.com
Briar Rose Creamery's Freya's Wheel is named for a Norse goddess of love and beauty.
From the sfgate.com
- Sweetbrier: Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
- 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
- Tree heath: evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
- A pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath
- (The Briars) Briars is the name of the small pavilion in which Napoleon Bonaparte stayed for the first few weeks of his captivity on Saint Helena. The pavilion was in the garden of William Balcombe, an English merchant who became a purveyor to Napoleon. ...
- (Briars) To see yourself caught among briars, black enemies are weaving cords of calumny and perjury intricately around you and will cause you great distress, but if you succeed in disengaging yourself from the briars, loyal friends will come to your assistance in every emergency.
- (BRIARS) To dream of going through briars depends upon the outcome, if you get to the other side unharmed then situations will not seem too bad. If you are injured or are caused to bleed by the thorns this indicates that enemies are out to do you harm.
- The name is a corruption of the French word "bruyere", or heath tree, a low shrub found throughout Europe, though mainly around the Mediterranean. The true briar is only made out of the very hard, dry root of the mature shrub which may be anything up to 250 years old.
- Also known as Bruyere in French, Briar is the name for wood that comes from the Burls found on the roots of the Heath Tree (Erica Arborea). Briar is widely considered the best and most popular material for Pipe making.
