brier vs greenbrier

greenbrier vs brier

brier and greenbrier both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
brier	Yes	No	No	No
greenbrier	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, brier and greenbrier are synonyms defined as:

brier and greenbrier: 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

Other synonyms of brier include briar, bullbrier, catbrier, horse-brier, horse brier, Smilax rotundifolia.

brier (noun)	greenbrier (noun)
evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes	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
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
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
tangled mass of prickly plants
a thorny stem or twig

Difference between brier and greenbrier

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