brier
b rahy er
- n tangled mass of prickly plants
- n a thorny stem or twig
- n Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
- n 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
- n evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
- Europe was a collection of untamed forests, countless mile upon mile of trees and brush and brier, dark and inhospitable.
- Franklin Roosevelt, who occasionally talks through his hat but more often pulls rabbits out of it, last week pulled out a rabbit and threw him into the brier patch of Civilian .
- He often made photographers wait for pictures while he found an old brier pipe, which he never smokes but likes to wear clamped between his teeth.