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Meanings of brier in English
Portuguese
urze-molar 
Evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes.
Spanish
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.
See moreEurasian 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.
2
There she saw a wee Robin Redbreast hopping on a brier bush.
3
Some smoked clays, but for the Arcadia Mixture give me a brier.
4
Between his teeth was a black brier pipe, which he puffed lazily.
5
The more he begged, the faster Gray Wolf hurried to the brier patch.
6
Suddenly his head was still; a spray of a brier-bush was swaying gently.
7
Pipemakers have been asking if our country offers a substitute for brier root.
8
The same rose-brier is nodding its untrimmed boughs by the door.
9
She is the brier, which hath sharply taught the tender flesh of each.
10
The ground beneath was planted only with aspidiums and brier roses.
11
If a piece of brush or brier sticks to the dress, name it.
12
I'm still stealing turkey eggs and running through a brier patch.
13
Behind her was the trellis of the porch, with its sweet-brier hanging over it.
14
A bank of brier and nettles lay before the mouth.
15
The brush parted and Ivy, Green-brier's cook, stumbled into view.
16
The air smelled faintly-sour of brier, and was as still as boughs of snow.
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United Kingdom
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