- evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
Synonym: tree heathbriarErica arborea
- 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
Synonym: bullbriergreenbriercatbrierhorse brierhorse-brierbriarSmilax rotundifolia
- Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
Synonym: sweetbriersweetbriarbriareglantineRosa eglanteria
- tangled mass of prickly plants
Synonym: brierpatchbrier patch
- a thorny stem or twig