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Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.
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Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
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The white heath, Erica arborea, a thorny Mediterranean shrub.
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A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.
Examples of briars in a Sentence
What you're going to get on a briar bush is briar bush is briars.
Katie frowned. In the course of a day, Gabe had gone from emotional to unaffected when discussing Death. He was distracted, and she felt like she was talking to someone completely different. Blaming herself for taking his mind off of their survival, she fell silent and followed him. Briars and branches caught her pant legs, and she found herself slowing to push more and more of the jungle's flora out of the way. Gabe, too, began to struggle with the bramble, and she noticed the jungle no longer laid their path before him. Instead of clearing away to allow them passage, it stayed where it was, obstructing them.
He resided first at "The Briars" with the Balcombes, and thereafter at Longwood, when that residence was ready for him.