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 bri·ar /ˈbraɪ(ə)r/
 野薔薇之一種

 Bri·er, Bri·ar  n.
 1. A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.
 2. Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
    The thorns and briers of reproof.   --Cowper.
 Brier root, the root of the southern Smilax laurifolia and Smilax Walteri; -- used for tobacco pipes. See also 2nd brier.
 Cat brier, Green brier, several species of Smilax (Smilax rotundifolia, etc.)
 Sweet brier (Rosa rubiginosa). See Sweetbrier.
 Yellow brier, the Rosa Eglantina.
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 Bri·ar n. Same as Brier.
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 briar
      n 1: Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and
           bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips [syn: sweetbrier,
            sweetbriar, brier, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria]
      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 [syn: bullbrier,
          greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, brier,
          Smilax rotundifolia]
      3: evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white
         flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots
         used to make tobacco pipes [syn: tree heath, brier, Erica
         arborea]
      4: a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath
         [syn: briar pipe]