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BRIAR
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath
Synonyms:
briar; briar pipe
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("briar" is a kind of...):
pipe; tobacco pipe (a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
Synonyms:
briar; brier; Erica arborea; tree heath
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("briar" is a kind of...):
erica; true heath (any plant of the genus Erica)
Meronyms (parts of "briar"):
briarroot (hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea)
Sense 3
Meaning:
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:
briar; brier; bullbrier; catbrier; greenbrier; horse-brier; horse brier; Smilax rotundifolia
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("briar" is a kind of...):
vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)
Holonyms ("briar" is a member of...):
genus Smilax; Smilax (sometimes placed in Smilacaceae)
Derivation:
briary (having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
Synonyms:
briar; brier; eglantine; Rosa eglanteria; sweetbriar; sweetbrier
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("briar" is a kind of...):
rose; rosebush (any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses)
Context examples:
He strayed down a walk edged with box, with apple trees, pear trees, and cherry trees on one side, and a border on the other full of all sorts of old-fashioned flowers, stocks, sweet-williams, primroses, pansies, mingled with southernwood, sweet-briar, and various fragrant herbs.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
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