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Dictionary: Bri·ar

n.

Same as Brier.


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The noun has 4 meanings:

Meaning #1: Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
  Synonyms: sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria

Meaning #2: 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, horsebrier, brier, Smilax rotundifolia

Meaning #3: evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
  Synonyms: tree heath, brier, Erica arborea

Meaning #4: a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath
  Synonym: briar pipe


Translations: Briar
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Dansk (Danish)
1.
n. - tornebusk, vild rose

2.
n. - trælyng

Nederlands (Dutch)
doornstruik, wit heidekruid

Français (French)
1.
n. - racine de bruyère, pipe de bruyère

2.
n. - églantier, ronce, épine

Deutsch (German)
1.
n. - Dornengebüsch, Wilde Rose

2.
n. - Bruyèrepfeife, (bot.) Baumheide

Ελληνική (Greek)
n. - βάτος, ακανθώδης θάμνος

Italiano (Italian)
erica, pipa di radica

Português (Portuguese)
n. - urze (f) branca (Bot.)

Русский (Russian)
шиповник, вереск

Español (Spanish)
1.
n. - brezo

2.
n. - zarza

Svenska (Swedish)
n. - briar, ljungträ, törnbuske

中文(简体)(Chinese (Simplified))
1. 荆棘

2. 用石南根制成之烟斗, 石南

中文(繁體)(Chinese (Traditional))
1.
n. - 用石南根製成之煙斗, 石南

2.
n. - 荊棘

한국어 (Korean)
1.
n. - 찔레, 가시가 많은 줄기, 괴로움

2.
n. - 브라이어(유럽산 석남과의 관목), 파이프

日本語 (Japanese)
n. - ブライアー, ブライアーパイプ

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(الاسم) نوع من ورد الجبلي, غليون‏

עברית (Hebrew)
n. - ‮עצבונית, מקטרת משורש העצבונית‬
n. - ‮חוח, קוץ‬


 
 
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