briar

1. 1.

   Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

   SynonymssweetbriersweetbriarbriereglantineRosa eglanteria

   Broaderrose
2. 2.

   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

   Synonymsbullbriergreenbriercatbrierhorse brierhorse-brierbrierSmilax rotundifolia

   Broadervine

   Part ofSmilax
3. 3.

   evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes

   Synonymstree heathbrierErica arborea

   Broadererica

   Partsbriarroot
4. 4.

   a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath

   Synonymsbriar pipe

   Broaderpipe

Other forms of briar

plural

briars·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about briar

What does briar mean?

briar means "Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in briar?

briar has 2 syllables: bri-ar. The stress falls on "bri". In IPA it is /ˈbɹaɪɚ/.

What is another word for briar?

Close synonyms include sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is briar a common word?

briar is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with briar?

1 word rhymes with briar. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.