briar

briar
I. noun also brier Etymology: Middle English brere, from Old English brēr Date: 15th century a plant (as a rose, blackberry, or greenbrier) having a usually woody and thorny or prickly stem; also a mass or twig of these • briary adjective II. noun Etymology: short for briar pipe, from briar wood of the European heath, from French bruyère heath, from Middle French bruiere, from Vulgar Latin *brucaria, from Late Latin brucus heather, of Celtic origin; akin to Old Irish froech heather; akin to Greek ereikē heather Date: 1882 a tobacco pipe made from the root or stem of a European heath (Erica arborea)

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