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Wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea
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briarwood
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Briarwood , formerly Briarwood–Van Wyck Boulevard or Van Wyck Boulevard , is a local station on the IND Queens Boulevard Line of the New York City Subway . Located at the intersection of 84th Drive, Main Street , Queens Boulevard , and the Van Wyck Expressway ...
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n. (taxlink Erica arborea species noshow=1), (vern: tree heath), an ericaceous flowering plant.
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Population (2000): 554 Housing Units (2000): 275 Land area (2000): 0.110728 sq. miles (0.286783 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km) Total area (2000): 0.110728 sq. miles (0.286783 sq. km) FIPS code: 09532 Located within: Kentucky ...
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n. wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes [syn: brierwood , brier-wood ]
Usage examples of briarwood.
They didn't blame her for Briarwood, since it had been built before she had become Queen of Chaillot, but they did blame her, bitterly, for her blindness.
Sadi had threatened her when Jaenelle had been put in Briarwood for the last time, had given her a taste of the grave.
Jaenelle's stays at Briarwood might have weakened an already fragile stability, but the child's eccentricities had been the reason why she had decided to send the girl to Briarwood in the first place.
Jaenelle's panic when the males from Briarwood started fighting the defenses Surreal had created in the corridors leading to the Altar.
How many of the children who were sent to Briarwood survived any of you?
And Jaenelle, with the horrors of Briarwood in her past, would never yield that way.
Arriving at Briarwood in an official car, complete with escort and the whole brass band, wouldn't exactly contribute to the low profile I'm trying to maintain.
It wasn't easy for a uniformed admiral of the Royal Manticoran Navy, escorted by three uniformed bodyguards, to pass unnoticed anywhere, but confidentiality was often something Briarwood had to take into consideration.
But Honor didn't have time to complete all the arrangements with Briarwood before she had to deploy to Trevor's Star.
Something which, perhaps, you might have told me before I went to Briarwood myself?
Franz Illescue's voice was flat, almost calm, with a lack of emphasis and exclamation points which rang alarm bells in every member of the Briarwood Reproduction Center's senior staff.
Franz Illescue walked stolidly across the Briarwood lobby, ignoring the shouted questions.
Franz Illescue said stiffly, "on behalf of Briarwood Reproduction Center, I offer you my sincere and personal apologies for our inexcusable violation of your confidentiality.
Honor stood in the Briarwood foyer, facing Illescue, and tasted his genuine remorse.
Still, he and Briarwood had seemed a bit nonplussed by the notion of having a pair of six-limbed, furry arboreals in attendance during a birthing.