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    Synonyms and Definitions

    Use "brier" in a sentence

    brier example sentences

    brier


    1. into a brier patch


    2. actually a type of brier patch


    3. 24 And there shall be no more a pricking brier to the house of Israel, nor any grieving thorn of all that are round about them,


    4. Brier: Any wild thorny-type bush


    5. You can see where the old house stood near the village church; they call the field "Castle Hill", Horlick's field where the ground's uneven and half of it is waste, nettle, and brier in hollows too deep for ploughing


    6. Those were our roots in the waste hollows of Castle Hill, in the brier and nettle; among the tombs in the old church and the chantry where no clerk sings


    7. We cut down a lot of brier bushes, willows, and poplars,—then came the turn of a bird-cherry


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    Synonyms for "brier"

    briar brier erica arborea tree heath bullbrier catbrier greenbrier horse-brier horse brier smilax rotundifolia eglantine rosa eglanteria sweetbriar sweetbrier brier patch brierpatch

    "brier" definitions

    tangled mass of prickly plants


    a thorny stem or twig


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


    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


    evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes