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Brier

name, noun

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
Noun
  1. 1
    Alternative spelling of briar. alt-of, alternative

    "Adeline thought little about it at the time; but often—oh! how often—did her memory dwell upon those accents, and recal that beloved voice, when after-events came thickening like briers in her path of life."

  2. 2
    evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes wordnet
  3. 3
    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 wordnet
  4. 4
    Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips wordnet
  5. 5
    tangled mass of prickly plants wordnet
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  1. 6
    a thorny stem or twig wordnet

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