Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun briar

4 senses of briar

Sense 1
sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria -- (Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips)
       => rose, rosebush -- (any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses)

Sense 2
bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, brier, briar, Smilax rotundifolia -- (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)
       => vine -- (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Sense 3
tree heath, briar, brier, Erica arborea -- (evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes)
       => erica, true heath -- (any plant of the genus Erica)

Sense 4
briar, briar pipe -- (a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath)
       => pipe, tobacco pipe -- (a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco)