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| The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-07. |
| brier |
| or briar, name sometimes given any thorny plant, more specifically the sweetbrier, and the greenbrier. French brier, or brierroot, is a name for the root of the European white heath so widely used in the manufacture of smoking pipes. |
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