Briar vs. Bramble

Briarnoun

Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.

Briarnoun

(figurative) Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.

Briarnoun

The white heath, Erica arborea, a thorny Mediterranean shrub.

Briarnoun

A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.

Briarnoun

Same as Brier.

Briarnoun

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

Briarnoun

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

Briarnoun

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

Briarnoun

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

Briarnoun

any of a number of prickly scrambling shrubs, especially a wild rose.

Briarnoun

a tobacco pipe made from woody nodules borne at ground level by a large woody plant of the heather family.

Briarnoun

the tree heath, which bears the nodules from which briar pipes are made.

Bramblenoun

(British) Common blackberry.

Bramblenoun

(US) Any of several closely related thorny plants in the genus Rubus, including blackberry and raspberry.

Bramblenoun

Any thorny shrub.

Bramblenoun

A cocktail of gin, lemon juice, and blackberry liqueur.

Bramblenoun

Any plant of the genus Rubus, including the raspberry and blackberry. Hence: Any rough, prickly shrub.

Bramblenoun

The brambling or bramble finch.

Bramblenoun

any of various rough thorny shrubs or vines

Bramblenoun

a prickly scrambling shrub of the rose family, especially a blackberry.

Bramblenoun

the fruit of the blackberry.

Brambleverb

gather blackberries

Bramble

A bramble is any rough, tangled, prickly shrub, usually in the genus Rubus, which grows blackberries, raspberries, or dewberries. is also used to describe other prickly shrubs such as roses (Rosa species).