briery

Definition of Briery in English :

having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

Example Sentences:
'a horse with a short bristly mane'
'bristly shrubs'
'burred fruits'
'setaceous whiskers'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Briery

noun

1. Also called: tree heath

an ericaceous shrub, Erica arborea, of S Europe, having a hard woody root (briarroot)

2.

a tobacco pipe made from the root of this plant

noun

a variant spelling of brier1

noun

brier1

noun

1.

a tobacco pipe made from the root of brier2 (sense 1)

2. occas. sp. of

brier2 (sense 1) brier2 (sense 2)

n.

Any of several prickly plants, such as certain rosebushes or the greenbrier.