noun
definition
Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.
definition
Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
Examples of briar in a Sentence
It is full of black and briar fruit flavors and moves to a velvety finish.
Monstrous gray rocks jutted up from the earth and found themselves entwined with honeysuckle and briar vines.
The outer is in a delicate Laura Ashley pink and sage green floral which I believe is called sweet briar rose.
What you're going to get on a briar bush is briar bush is briars.
The green and brown stripe boxes are hand-made and veneered in briar walnut.
Green Briar (Smilax Rotundifolia) - A high climbing species with large, thin, and nearly round leaves.
Ian Maclaren's first sketches of rural Scottish life, Beside the Bonnie Briar Bush (1894), achieved extraordinary popularity and were followed by other successful books, The Days of Auld Lang Syne (1895), Kate Carnegie and those Ministers (1896) and Afterwards and other Stories (1898).
Bristly Green Briar (Smilax Bona-Nox) - The root-stocks have large tubers; the stems are slightly angled, the branches often four-angled, the leaves green and shining on both sides, and their margins fringed with needle-like prickles.