Hyphenation of briar

Wondering how to hyphenate the English word briar? This word can be hyphenated and contains 2 syllables as shown below.

bri-ar

Definitions of briar:

1.	Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
2.	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
3.	Evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
4.	A pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath

Synonyms of briar:

noun	sweetbrier, sweetbriar, brier, eglantine, Rosa eglanteria, rose
noun	bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, brier, Smilax rotundifolia, vine
noun	tree heath, brier, Erica arborea, erica, true heath
noun	briar pipe, pipe, tobacco pipe

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The hyphen is a punctuation mark used to join words and to separate syllables of a single word. The use of hyphens is called hyphenation. The hyphen should not be confused with dashes, which are longer and have different uses, or with the minus sign, which is also longer in some contexts. Some words can be hyphenated in different places and you can use this website to find out where. Also reffered to as syllable counter and divider.