briar
Prickly wild rose
A briar is a prickly shrub, especially wild roses or brambles with thorny stems.
The word suggests tangled, difficult-to-penetrate undergrowth: We hacked through the briars.
A briar is also a tobacco pipe made from the root of a Mediterranean shrub—the briar tree—whose dense wood resists burning.
Also spelled brier.
Pointed plant projection
- prickleTiny sharp point
- scratchSuperficial wound or mark
- tangleTwisted mass of strands
- thicketDense shrub cluster
bramble · blackberry · dewberry · wild rose · hedge · impenetrable · overgrown · snarl
Dried smoking leaf
- bowlConcave food container
- stemPlant's central axis
- mouthpieceOne who speaks officially
- chamberEnclosed room or cavity
smoking · meerschaum · corncob · carve · grain · burnout · cake · rustication
Material covering damage
- hillsideSloping terrain face
- countrysideRural area beyond towns
- untamedNot domesticated
- wildernessUncultivated, uninhabited natural region
scrubland · wasteland · overgrown · feral · uncultivated · hedgerow · roadside · abandoned
thorn
Pointed plant projection
thicket · bramble · blackberry · dewberry · wild rose · hedge · impenetrable · overgrown · snarl · snag
tobacco
Dried smoking leaf
- bowlConcave food container
- stemPlant's central axis
- mouthpieceOne who speaks officially
chamber · smoking · meerschaum · corncob · carve · grain · burnout · cake · rustication · sandblast
patch
Material covering damage
- hillsideSloping terrain face
- countrysideRural area beyond towns
- untamedNot domesticated
wilderness · scrubland · wasteland · overgrown · feral · uncultivated · hedgerow · roadside · abandoned · field
Brer Rabbit
African-American folklore's clever hare
fairytale · curse · impenetrable · castle · prince · spindle · hedge · magical · overgrown · barrier
heath
Open land with shrubs
burl · Mediterranean · Corsican · hardwood · dense · woody · evergreen · rootstock · cultivated · harvested
- thorny plantsblackberry, bramble, thistle, brambles, raspberry
- undergrowthundergrowth, understory, thicket, shrubbery, underbrush
- Rose familyapple, apricot, blackberry, cherry, peach
- underbrushunderbrush, undergrowth, brush, scrub, thicket
- tobaccocigarettes, cigars, pipe tobacco, tobacco, chewing tobacco
- plant clustersbush, shrub, thicket, hedge, copse
briarclearing
Treeless space in forest
clear path · groomed trail · lawn · open field · parkland
- briar patchThorny shrub thicket
- briar pipe
- Briar RoseCurse-bound sleeping royal