1. Eurasian rose with prickly stems, fragrant leaves, and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
   "briar is also known as eglantine";
   - 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
   "Hikers carefully avoided the thorny thickets of briar";
   - 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
   "Craftsmen carved the briar roots into elegant smoking pipes";
   - tree heath, brier, Erica arborea
    
4. A pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath
   "The tobacco connoisseur preferred smoking from his vintage briar pipe";
   - briar pipe

Derived forms: briars

Type of: erica, pipe, rose, rosebush, tobacco pipe, true heath, vine

Part of: genus Smilax, Smilax

Encyclopedia: Briar, Texas