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# briar

«briar» in Mova's school dictionary: **a prickly bush or wild rose with thorny stems that grows…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (briars)

### meaning for a pupil

A briar is a prickly bush or wild rose with thorny stems that grows in hedges and woods. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/briar/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

a thorny hedge that grows up and hides a castle or a sleeping princess in fairy tales

### examples

- The prince had to cut through the thick briar to reach the castle. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/briar/#x1)
- The briars scratched his arms as he pushed through. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/briar/#x2)
- The bramble and briar grew over the walls of the palace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/briar/#x3)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «briar» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/briar/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.