The Clue
Pipe type (5 letter answer)
The Answer
BRIAR
Tags
Notes
The answer BRIAR is uncommon, appearing about once every 450 puzzles.
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Definition
BRIAR as a noun:
1. (sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria) = Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
2. (bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, brier, briar, Smilax rotundifolia) = 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
3. (tree heath, briar, brier, Erica arborea) = evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
4. (briar, briar pipe) = a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath