brier

/'braiə/ Cách viết khác : (briar) /'braiə/
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brier

A gardener carefully trims a brier with thick gloves.

Definition
  1. Noun:
    • A type of shrub: A brier is a prickly, often woody plant, typically referring to various wild shrubs with thorny stems, such as certain wild roses or blackberry bushes.
    • A tobacco pipe: A brier (also spelled briar) is a pipe for smoking tobacco, traditionally made from the hard, heat-resistant root burl of the white heath (Erica arborea), a Mediterranean shrub.
Examples of Usage
  • Noun (Plant):
    • We had to clear a path through the thick brier.
    • The sweet brier produces fragrant pink flowers.
  • Noun (Pipe):
    • He filled his brier with tobacco and lit it.
    • A well-made brier pipe can last for decades.
Advanced Usage
  • "Brier patch": A dense, tangled area of thorny shrubs.
    • The rabbit disappeared into the impenetrable brier patch.
Variants and Related Words
  • Briar: An alternative spelling, especially common when referring to the tobacco pipe.
    • He prefers a briar pipe to a corncob one.
  • Sweetbrier/Sweet brier (n): A specific type of wild rose () known for its fragrant foliage and pink flowers.
    • The scent of sweetbrier filled the garden.
Synonyms
  • Thicket: A dense group of bushes or trees.
  • Bramble: A rough, prickly shrub, especially of the genus (like blackberry).
  • Heath: A shrubland habitat, or shrubs like heather; the source wood for brier pipes.
Related Phrases
  • "In the briers": In a difficult or troublesome situation (figurative, based on being caught in prickly plants).
    • After that failed investment, he found himself in the briers financially.
Related Idioms
  • "A thorn in one's side": A persistent source of annoyance. (While not containing "brier," it relates to the prickly, troublesome nature of brier plants.)
    • The ongoing dispute was a thorn in the side of the negotiations.
brier

A gardener carefully trims a brier with thick gloves.

Noun
  1. evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
  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
  3. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
  4. a thorny stem or twig
  5. tangled mass of prickly plants

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