Prickly shrub Crossword Clue

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Prickly shrub Crossword Answer

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(noun)
1. Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
2. a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath

Hint 2: Clue Definitions

PRICKLY (adjective)
1. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
2. very irritable
SHRUB (noun)
1. a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

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