Briar: Definition and part of speech

Briar

  1. n. Same as Brier.
  2. n. A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.

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