(n): any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
(n): 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
(n): a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
(n): evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
(n): any plant of the genus Erica
(n): a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath
(n): a tube with a small bowl at one end; used for smoking tobacco
"The next morning my ears, neck, shoulders and back looked as if I'd spent the night wrestling with thirty-three kittens in a briar patch crisscrossed with barbed wire during a hailstorm."
- 'The Dice Man', Luke Rhinehart.