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Meanings of brier 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
        Spanish
        brezal

        Tangled mass of prickly plants.

              brezal

              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.

                        Usage of brier in English
                        1
                        I am afraid you will turn me loose in the brier patch.
                        The Child's World: Third Reader
                        2
                        There she saw a wee Robin Redbreast hopping on a brier bush.
                        Boys and Girls Bookshelf; a Practical Plan of Character Building...
                        3
                        Some smoked clays, but for the Arcadia Mixture give me a brier.
                        My Lady Nicotine: A Study in Smoke
                        4
                        Between his teeth was a black brier pipe, which he puffed lazily.
                        Aunt Jane's Nieces
                        5
                        The more he begged, the faster Gray Wolf hurried to the brier patch.
                        The Child's World: Third Reader
                        6
                        Suddenly his head was still; a spray of a brier-bush was swaying gently.
                        The Way of the Wild
                        7
                        Pipemakers have been asking if our country offers a substitute for brier root.
                        The new yorker
                        8
                        The same rose-brier is nodding its untrimmed boughs by the door.
                        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 103, May, 1866 / A Magazine...
                        9
                        She is the brier, which hath sharply taught the tender flesh of each.
                        The White Ladies of Worcester: A Romance of the Twelfth Century
                        10
                        The ground beneath was planted only with aspidiums and brier roses.
                        Steep Trails
                        11
                        If a piece of brush or brier sticks to the dress, name it.
                        Current Superstitions / Collected from the Oral Tradition of Eng...
                        12
                        I'm still stealing turkey eggs and running through a brier patch.
                        Breakfast at Tiffany's
                        13
                        Behind her was the trellis of the porch, with its sweet-brier hanging over it.
                        The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 12, No. 69, July, 1863 / A Magazine...
                        14
                        A bank of brier and nettles lay before the mouth.
                        The Spinners
                        15
                        The brush parted and Ivy, Green-brier's cook, stumbled into view.
                        Beautiful creatures
                        16
                        The air smelled faintly-sour of brier, and was as still as boughs of snow.
                        Henry Brocken / His Travels and Adventures in the Rich, Strange,...
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                        Translations for brier
                        Portuguese
                        urze-molar
                        Brier through the time
                        Brier across language varieties
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