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