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Meanings of briar in English

Portuguese
urze-molar
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Evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes.

urze-molar

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.

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Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips.

A pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath.

Usage of briar in English
1
The sweet-briar and cabbage-roses and southernwood filled the caravan with their fragrance.
A Peep Behind the Scenes
2
They have left Barbie back at Sweet-briar, finishing up the breakfast service.
Under the dome: a novel
3
Some apple trees and sweet-briar still in bloom, and broom generally so.
Memoir, Correspondence, and Miscellanies, From the Papers of Tho...
4
Trees come more little tween of they, and briar is come more.
Voice of the Fire
5
Blackberries! Ayla said, sliding off Whinney and rushing to the briar patch.
The Plains of Passage
6
The Senator looked puzzled as he thoughtfully tamped tobacco into his briar.
Suite Mentale
7
He hurried to where Mrs. Peter was hiding under a sweet-briar bush.
Mrs. Peter Rabbit
8
Summerlee was sitting up and stuffing some tobacco into his old briar.
The Lost World
9
But a cold jealousy coiled around her heart like a thorny briar.
The Secret Eleanor
10
There were hedges of sweet briar, acres of lupins, purple and yellow.
Rezanov
11
Born and bred in a briar bush, he jeers and hops off.
The Irish Times
12
Inside, a night watchman lounged behind a desk, smoking a blackened briar.
The Penal Cluster
13
And at that chance utterance Willoughby's briar pipe ceased suddenly to bubble.
The Four Feathers
14
Did any one ever see such a mass of weed and briar?
Esther Waters
15
The humble briar leaf throws up great colour at this time of year.
The Irish Times
16
Twice he cleaned the old briar; still there was no improvement.
The Ragged Edge
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Portuguese
urze-molar
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United Kingdom
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United States of America
Common