brierwood

1. 1.

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

   Synonymsbriarwoodbrier-wood

   Broaderwood

Other forms of brierwood

plural

brierwoods·

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 brierwood

What does brierwood mean?

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

How many syllables are in brierwood?

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

What is another word for brierwood?

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

brierwood 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.