Definitions for briar
ˈbraɪ ərbri·ar

Princeton's WordNet(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, briar, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria(noun)

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

2. 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

3. 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

4. briar, briar pipe(noun)

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

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1. briar(Noun)

   Any of a number of unrelated thicket-forming thorny plants.

2. briar(Noun)

   A pipe made from the burl of the white heath tree.

Webster Dictionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition:

1. Briar(noun)

   same as Brier

2. Briar(noun)

   a plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax

3. Briar(noun)

   fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings

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1. 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.

How to pronounce briar?

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   Alex

   US English

   

   Daniel

   British

   

   Karen

   Australian

   

   Veena

   Indian

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Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of briar in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of briar in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of briar in a Sentence

1. Emily Brontë:

   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?

2. Attorney General Mark Herring:

   I am pleased that the parties were able to reach a mediated resolution to the litigation involving Sweet Briar College.

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