brier
noun
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Senses
Sense 1 noun
tangled mass of prickly plants
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Sense 2 noun
a thorny stem or twig
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Sense 3 noun
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
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Sense 4 noun
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
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Sense 5 noun
evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
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| Sense | Relation | Group | Word |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hypernym | Types & categories | flora |
| 2 | hypernym | Types & categories | sprig |
| 3 | hypernym | Types & categories | rose |
| 4 | derivation | Related & opposite | barbellate |
| 4 | member holonym | Parts & wholes | Smilax |
| 4 | hypernym | Types & categories | vine |
| 5 | part meronym | Parts & wholes | briarroot |
| 5 | hypernym | Types & categories | erica |