brier
Prickly wild growth
A brier is a thorny shrub, especially wild roses or brambles, or a twig from such a plant.
The word appears in descriptions of overgrown land: The path was choked with briers.
Brier also names an unrelated shrub whose root is used to make tobacco pipes—a brier pipe.
Also spelled briar.
Thorny wild shrub
- blackberryAggregate fruit from thorny canes
- raspberryAggregate bramble fruit
- thicketDense shrub cluster
- hedgeBoundary of planted shrubs
thornbush · wild rose · dewberry · undergrowth · scrub · tangle · cane · vine
bramble
Thorny wild shrub
- blackberryAggregate fruit from thorny canes
- raspberryAggregate bramble fruit
- thicketDense shrub cluster
hedge · thornbush · wild rose · dewberry · undergrowth · scrub · tangle · cane · vine · rosebush
prickly
Spiny or irritable
scratching · piercing · snagging · catching · tangled · impenetrable · dense · overgrown · painful · stinging
tobacco
Dried smoking leaf
- smokingInhaling burning tobacco
- meerschaumSoft white clay mineral
- bowlConcave food container
stem · grain · carved · polished · aromatic · burled · root · crafted · artisan · calabash
- thorny plantsblackberry, bramble, thistle, brambles, raspberry
briermoss
Spore-bearing ground cover
lamb's ear · soft grass · fern · silk · clover
brierclear path
Unobstructed way forward
clearing · lawn · open field · path · parkland
- briar patchThorny shrub thicket
- briar pipe
- Briar RoseCurse-bound sleeping royal