Thorny bush for making tobacco pipes

noun

1. A plant (such as a rose, blackberry, or greenbrier) having a usually woody and thorny or prickly stem

   "a thicket of briars"

2. A mass of briars

   "… threading his way with perfect skill between tree-trunks, jumping over bush and briar and the smaller streams …"

3. A branch or twig of a briar

   "With my pair of brush cutters that I always carried I cut away enough of the long briars to provide an opening for me to sit comfortably in."

4. a plant (such as a rose, blackberry, or greenbrier) having a usually woody and thorny or prickly stem
5. a mass of briars
6. a branch or twig of a briar

noun

1. A tobacco pipe made from a woody root outgrowth of a shrub-like Mediterranean heath (Erica arborea)

   "He grinned again and disappeared in a great cloud of pipe smoke. I pulled out my briar and joined him."

noun

1. A plant (such as a rose, blackberry, or greenbrier) having a usually woody and thorny or prickly stem

   "a thicket of briars"

2. A mass of briars

   "… threading his way with perfect skill between tree-trunks, jumping over bush and briar and the smaller streams …"

3. A branch or twig of a briar

   "With my pair of brush cutters that I always carried I cut away enough of the long briars to provide an opening for me to sit comfortably in."

4. a plant (such as a rose, blackberry, or greenbrier) having a usually woody and thorny or prickly stem
5. a mass of briars
6. a branch or twig of a briar

noun

1. An area in which briars see briar are growing

   "… the cottontail was sitting comfortably on a stump right in the middle of a briar patch …"

2. A troublesome or difficult situation or experience

   "The culling of bison at Yellowstone, while legal, has been a briar patch of controversy for more than two decades."