briar vs rose

briar and rose both are nouns.

briar is not an adjective while rose is an adjective.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
briar	Yes	No	No	No
rose	Yes	Yes	No	No

As nouns, rose is a hypernym of briar; that is, rose is a word with a broader meaning than briar:

briar: Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
rose: any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses

Other hypernyms of briar include rosebush.

briar (noun)	rose (noun)
a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath	a dusty pink color
evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes	pinkish table wine from red grapes whose skins were removed after fermentation began
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	any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

briar (adjective)	rose (adjective)
	of something having a dusty purplish pink color

Difference between briar and rose

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