rose vs briar

rose and briar both are nouns.

rose is an adjective but briar is not an adjective.

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

As nouns, briar is a hyponym of rose; that is, briar is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than rose:

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

Other hyponyms of rose include mountain rose, Rosa pendulina, ground rose, Rosa spithamaea, banksia rose, Rosa banksia, dog rose, Rosa canina, Bengal rose, China rose, Rosa chinensis, damask rose, Rosa damascena, summer damask rose, brier, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, sweetbriar, sweetbrier, Cherokee rose, Rosa laevigata, baby rose, Japanese rose, multiflora, multiflora rose, Rosa multiflora, musk rose, Rosa moschata, Rosa odorata, tea rose.

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

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

Difference between rose and briar

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