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 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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 Smilax rotundifolia
      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 [syn: bullbrier,
           greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier, horse-brier,
          brier, briar]