Thicket vs. Briar — What's the Difference?

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.

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

A dense growth of shrubs or underbrush; a copse.

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

Something suggestive of a dense growth of plants, as in impenetrability or thickness

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

A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.

Any of several prickly plants, such as certain rosebushes or the greenbrier.

(figuratively) A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.

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.

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A pipe made from the root of this plant or from a similar wood.

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

Variant of brier1.

A dense growth of bushes

Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera.

(figurative) Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.

The white heath (Erica arborea), a thorny Mediterranean shrub.

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

Same as Brier.

Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips

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

Evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes

A pipe made from the root (briarroot) of the tree heath