Translation for 'briar' from English to Icelandic

Little Briar Rose

Þyrnirós {kv}F

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rose briar

hundarós {kv} [Rosa canina]gras.T

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small-flowered sweet-briar

perlurós {kv} [Rosa micrantha]gras.T

• During the Boer War, the press lionised him as "Uncle French" and "the shirt-sleeved general", writing of how he smoked a briar pipe and enjoyed being mistaken for a private soldier.
• Where a thicket is formed of briar (also spelled brier), which is a common name for any of a number of unrelated thorny plants, it may be called a briar patch.
• The fire-resistant lignotubers of Erica arborea, known as "briar root", are commonly used to make smoking pipes.
• The rose wrapped 'round the briar.
• Briar is an unincorporated community in Ripley County, Missouri, United States.

• It is the finish of choice for most briar tobacco and smoking pipes, as it produces a high gloss when buffed that dulls with time, rather than flaking off like most other finishes.
• "Rosa agrestis", the small-leaved sweet briar, field briar or fieldbriar, is a species of wild rose native to Europe, found mostly in southern Europe and occasionally as far as the Caucasus.
• Botanomancy is the art of divination by burning branches of trees or herbs. The most common branches used are vervain and briar.
• "Mimosa quadrivalvis", known as fourvalve mimosa, sensitive briar and cat's claw, is a trailing vine native to North America, Central America, and the Caribbean.
• A broken column is at their feet, covered with briar rose, perhaps an allusion to Burne-Jones' Briar Rose series.

• The caked layer that helps prevent burning through the bottom or sides of a briar wood pipe may damage other pipes, such as meerschaum or clay.
• "Musgravea heterophylla", commonly known as the briar oak, is a species of rainforest tree of the family Proteaceae from north-eastern Queensland.
• In January 2022 Sweetbriar Road Meadows and the adjacent marshes making up the Sweet Briar Marshes was purchased by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation on behalf of the Norfolk Wildlife Trust.
• "Anacropora" is a genus of stony corals in the Acroporidae family. They are sometimes called briar corals and there are seven known species.
• During World War II, manzanita root burls were used as a suitable native material to make smoking pipes due to its relation and similar fire-resistant properties to then-unavailable imported briar.

• Francis Wilfred de Guingand was born in Acton, London, on 28 February 1900, the second of the four children of Francis Julius de Guingand, a briar-wood tobacco pipe manufacturer, and his wife Mary Monica [...] Priestman.