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BRIARROOT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("briarroot" is a kind of...):
root ((botany) the usually underground organ that lacks buds or leaves or nodes; absorbs water and mineral salts; usually it anchors the plant to the ground)
Meronyms (substance of "briarroot"):
briarwood; brier-wood; brierwood (wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes)
Holonyms ("briarroot" is a part of...):
briar; brier; Erica arborea; tree heath (evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes)
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