Thicket vs. Briar
Difference Between Thicket and Briar
Thicketnoun
A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
Briarnoun
Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.
Thicketnoun
(figuratively) A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
He had to complete a thicket of paperwork before he was allowed to join the company.Briarnoun
(figurative) Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
Thicketnoun
The collection of many small linked files created when a document is saved in HTML format by some word processors and web site creation software.
Briarnoun
The white heath, Erica arborea, a thorny Mediterranean shrub.
Thicketnoun
a dense growth of bushes
Briarnoun
A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.
Briarnoun
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
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
