Briar vs. Brier

Difference Between Briar and Brier
Briarnoun
Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.
Briernoun
tangled mass of prickly plants
Briarnoun
(figurative) Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
Briernoun
a thorny stem or twig
Briarnoun
The white heath, Erica arborea, a thorny Mediterranean shrub.
Briernoun
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
Briarnoun
A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.
Briernoun
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
Briarnoun
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
Briernoun
evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
Briarnoun
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
Briarnoun
evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
Briarnoun
a pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath