Thicket vs. Briar: What's the Difference?

Thicket and Briar Definitions
Thicket
A dense growth of shrubs or underbrush; a copse.
Briar
Any of several prickly plants, such as certain rosebushes or the greenbrier.
Thicket
Something suggestive of a dense growth of plants, as in impenetrability or thickness
"the thicket of unreality which stands between us and the facts of life" (Daniel J. Boorstin).
Briar
A Mediterranean shrub or small tree (Erica arborea) in the heath family, whose woody roots are used to make tobacco pipes. Also called tree heath.
Thicket
A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
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Briar
A pipe made from the root of this plant or from a similar wood.
Thicket
(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.
Briar
Variant of brier1.
Thicket
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.
Briar
Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.
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Thicket
A wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket.
Briar
(figurative) Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
Thicket
A dense growth of bushes
Briar
The white heath (Erica arborea), a thorny Mediterranean shrub.
Briar
A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.
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Briar
Same as Brier.
Briar
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
Briar
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
Briar
Evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
Briar
A pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath