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

5 senses of brier

Sense 1
brier, brierpatch, brier patch -- (tangled mass of prickly plants)
       => vegetation, flora, botany -- (all the plant life in a particular region or period; "Pleistocene vegetation"; "the flora of southern California"; "the botany of China")

Sense 2
brier -- (a thorny stem or twig)
       => branchlet, twig, sprig -- (a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year)

Sense 3
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 4
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 5
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)