Definition of briar

Scrabble & Words with friends points


  • briar is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 7
  • briar is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 7
  • briar is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 8

Definition of briar


  • Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. brier
    2. eglantine
    3. rosa eglanteria
    4. sweetbriar
    5. sweetbrier
  • a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. briar pipe
  • evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. brier
    2. erica arborea
    3. tree heath
  • 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 (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. brier
    2. bullbrier
    3. catbrier
    4. greenbrier
    5. horse-brier
    6. horse brier
    7. smilax rotundifolia

See definition of briar in Merriam Webster