Synonyms for Brier (same or very similar meaning)
WordNet sense 1 (tangled mass of prickly plants):
brierpatch
WordNet sense 2 (Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips):
briar, eglantine, sweetbrier, sweetbriar, Rosa eglanteria
WordNet sense 3 (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):
greenbrier, bullbrier, catbrier, horse-brier, Smilax rotundifolia
WordNet sense 4 (evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes):
tree heath, Erica arborea
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