Thicket vs. 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 wood or a collection of trees, shrubs, etc., closely set; as, a ram caught in a thicket.

Briarnoun

A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.

Thicketnoun

a dense growth of bushes

Briarnoun

Same as Brier.

Thicket

A thicket is a very dense stand of trees or tall shrubs, often dominated by only one or a few species, to the exclusion of all others. They may be formed by species that shed large numbers of highly viable seeds that are able to germinate in the shelter of the maternal plants.

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

Briarnoun

any of a number of prickly scrambling shrubs, especially a wild rose.

Briarnoun

a tobacco pipe made from woody nodules borne at ground level by a large woody plant of the heather family.

Briarnoun

the tree heath, which bears the nodules from which briar pipes are made.