Meanings
brier1
plural briers
- alternativeAlternative spelling of briar.
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.
1842, [Katherine] Thomson, chapter V, in Widows and Widowers. A Romance of Real Life., volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], →OCLC, page 118
Brier2
Synonyms & antonyms
nounEurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
nouna 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
nounevergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
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