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briar
(encz) | briar,šípek n: Zdeněk Brož |
Briar
(gcide) | Briar \Bri"ar\, n.
Same as Brier.
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Briar
(gcide) | 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.
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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.
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briar
(wn) | briar
n 1: Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and
bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips [syn:
sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine,
Rosa eglanteria]
2: 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,
brier, briar, Smilax rotundifolia]
3: 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, brier,
Erica arborea]
4: a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath [syn:
briar, briar pipe] |
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briar
(encz) | briar,šípek n: Zdeněk Brož |
greenbriar
(encz) | Greenbriar, |
sweetbriar
(encz) | sweetbriar, |
briard
(gcide) | briard \briard\ (br[=e]*[aum]r"; br[=e]*[aum]rd"), n.
an old French breed of large strong usually black dogs having
a long tail and long wavy and slightly stiff coat.
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Briarean
(gcide) | Briarean \Bri*a"re*an\, a. [L. Briareius, fr. Briareus a
mythological hundred-handed giant, Gr. ?, fr. ? strong.]
Pertaining to, or resembling, Briareus, a giant fabled to
have a hundred hands; hence, hundred-handed or many-handed.
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briarroot
(gcide) | briarroot \briarroot\ n.
the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea. [Also
spelled brierroot.]
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briarwood
(gcide) | briarwood \briarwood\ n.
wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea;
used to make tobacco pipes.
Syn: brierwood.
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briary
(gcide) | briary \briary\ adj.
1. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or
spines or thorns etc.; -- of plants or animals.
Syn: barbed, barbellate, briery, bristly, burred, burry,
prickly, spiny, thorny.
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briar
(wn) | briar
n 1: Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and
bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips [syn:
sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine,
Rosa eglanteria]
2: 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,
brier, briar, Smilax rotundifolia]
3: 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, brier,
Erica arborea]
4: a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath [syn:
briar, briar pipe] |
briar pipe
(wn) | briar pipe
n 1: a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath
[syn: briar, briar pipe] |
briard
(wn) | briard
n 1: old French breed of large strong usually black dogs having
a long tail and long wavy and slightly stiff coat |
briarroot
(wn) | briarroot
n 1: hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea |
briarwood
(wn) | briarwood
n 1: wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea;
used to make tobacco pipes [syn: briarwood, brierwood,
brier-wood] |
briary
(wn) | briary
adj 1: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or
spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short
bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits";
"setaceous whiskers" [syn: barbed, barbellate,
briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred,
burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny,
thorny] |
sweetbriar
(wn) | sweetbriar
n 1: Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and
bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips [syn:
sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine,
Rosa eglanteria] |
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