brier-wood

1. 1.

   wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes

   Synonymsbriarwoodbrierwood

   Broaderwood

Questions about brier-wood

What does brier-wood mean?

brier-wood means "wood from the hard woody root of the briar Erica arborea; used to make tobacco pipes".

How many syllables are in brier-wood?

brier-wood has 2 syllables: brier--wood. The stress falls on "brier-".

What is another word for brier-wood?

Close synonyms include briarwood, brierwood. 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 brier-wood a common word?

brier-wood 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.