rosebush vs brier

brier vs rosebush

rosebush and brier both are nouns.

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

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

rosebush: 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 rosebush 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.

rosebush (noun)	brier (noun)
any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses	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
	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 rosebush and brier

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