Found 3 items, similar to Brier.
English → Indonesian (quick)
Definition: brier
tumbuh-tumbuhan berduri
English → English (WordNet)
Definition: brier
brier
n 1: tangled mass of prickly plants [syn:
brierpatch,
brier patch
]
2: a thorny stem or twig
3: Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and
bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips [syn:
sweetbrier,
sweetbriar,
briar,
eglantine,
Rosa eglanteria]
4: 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 [syn:
bullbrier,
greenbrier,
catbrier,
horse brier,
horse-brier,
briar,
Smilax rotundifolia]
5: evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white
flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots
used to make tobacco pipes [syn:
tree heath,
briar,
Erica arborea
]
English → English (gcide)
Definition: Brier
Brier
\Bri"er\, Briar
\Bri"ar\ (br[imac]"[~e]r), n. [OE. brere,
brer, AS. br[=e]r, br[ae]r; cf. Ir. briar prickle, thorn,
brier, pin, Gael. preas bush, brier, W. prys, prysg.]
1. A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles;
especially, species of
Rosa,
Rubus, and
Smilax.
[1913 Webster]
2. Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
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The thorns and briers of reproof. --Cowper.
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Brier root, the root of the southern
Smilax laurifolia
and
Smilax Walteri; -- used for tobacco pipes. See also
2nd
brier.
Cat brier,
Green brier, several species of Smilax
(
Smilax rotundifolia, etc.)
Sweet brier (
Rosa rubiginosa). See
Sweetbrier.
Yellow brier, the
Rosa Eglantina.
[1913 Webster]
Brier
\Bri"er\, n.
1. the white heath
Erica arborea. --RHUD.
[PJC]
2. a smoking pipe made of the root of the brier[1].
Note: Brierroot seems to have been used formerly as a term
meaning root of the
Smilax laurifolia and is now
defined as root of the
Erica arborea. Not clear when
this changed. -- PJC.
[PJC]