noun tangled mass of prickly plants.
— synonyms: brierpatch, brier_patch
noun a thorny stem or twig.
noun Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips.
— synonyms: sweetbrier, sweetbriar, briar, eglantine, Rosa_eglanteria
noun 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: bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, horse_brier, horse-brier, briar, Smilax_rotundifolia
noun evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes.
— synonyms: tree_heath, briar, Erica_arborea