rose vs brier

rose and brier both are nouns.

rose is an adjective but brier is not an adjective.

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

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

rose: any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
brier: 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, briar, 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)	brier (noun)
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
	tangled mass of prickly plants
	a thorny stem or twig

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

Difference between rose and brier

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