briary

Questions about briary

What does briary mean?

briary means "having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.".

How many syllables are in briary?

briary has 3 syllables: bri-a-ry. The stress falls on "bri".

What is another word for briary?

Close synonyms include barbed, barbellate, briery, bristled, bristly. 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 briary a common word?

briary is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.