What does briar mean?
Definitions for briar
ˈbraɪ ərbri·ar
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word briar.
Princeton's WordNet
sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria(noun)
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, brier, briar, Smilax rotundifolia(noun)
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
tree heath, briar, brier, Erica arborea(noun)
evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
briar, briar pipe(noun)
a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath
Wiktionary
briar(Noun)
Any of a number of unrelated thicket-forming thorny plants.
briar(Noun)
A pipe made from the burl of the white heath tree.
Webster Dictionary
Briar(noun)
same as Brier
Briar(noun)
a plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax
Briar(noun)
fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings
Freebase
Briar
Briar is a census-designated place in Parker, Tarrant, and Wise counties in the U.S. state of Texas, near the west side of Eagle Mountain Lake. The population was 5,665 at the 2010 census.
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of briar in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of briar in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of briar in a Sentence
Attorney General Mark Herring:
I am pleased that the parties were able to reach a mediated resolution to the litigation involving Sweet Briar College.
Love is like the wild rose-briar; Friendship like the holly-tree. The holly is dark when the rose-briar blooms, but which will bloom most constantly?
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- briarDanish
- DornbuschGerman
- ρείκιGreek
- briarEsperanto
- visapiippuFinnish
- églantier, bruyèreFrench
- drisScottish Gaelic
- जंगली गुलाबHindi
- mawar liarIndonesian
- ericaItalian
- צֵןHebrew
- ブライヤーJapanese
- incultisque rubens pendebitLatin
- briarNorwegian
- wrzosiecPolish
- sarçaPortuguese
- mărăciniRomanian
- шиповникRussian
- briarSwedish
- బ్రియార్Telugu
- ไม้หนามThai
- fundaTurkish
- briarYiddish
- 野蔷薇Chinese
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