BRIERS Synonyms

• a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf

• cause a prickling sensation

• cause a stinging or tingling sensation

• make a small hole into, as with a needle or a thorn

• the series of vertebrae forming the axis of the skeleton and protecting the spinal cord

• any sharply pointed projection

• a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf

• the part of a book's cover that encloses the inner side of the book's pages and that faces outward when the book is shelved

• a sharp rigid animal process or appendage; as a porcupine quill or a ridge on a bone or a ray of a fish fin

• a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf

• an adhesive label

• a particularly difficult or baffling question or problem

• a short knife with a pointed blade used for piercing or stabbing

• something that causes irritation and annoyance

• a small sharp-pointed tip resembling a spike on a stem or leaf

• a Germanic character of runic origin

• Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

• 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

• evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes

• a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath

• tangled mass of prickly plants

• 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

• 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

• Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

• 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

• 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

• Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

• Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

• tangled mass of prickly plants

• evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes

• Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

• 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

• gaunt Tasmanian evergreen shrubby tree with slender tapering leaves 3 to 5 feet long

• evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes