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Briar vs Thicket - What's the difference?

briar | thicket |

As nouns the difference between briar and thicket

is that briar is any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax genera while thicket is a dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.

briar

English

(wikipedia briar) (Erica arborea)

Alternative forms

* brier

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of many plants with thorny stems growing in dense clusters, such as many in the Rosa, Rubus'', and ''Smilax genera.
  • , a thorny Mediterranean shrub.
  • A pipe for smoking, made from the roots of that shrub.
  • (figurative) Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
  • * (rfdate) (Cowper)
    • The thorns and briers of reproof.
    Derived terms
    * briar-patch

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) , assimilated with Etymology 1, above.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • The white heath, .
  • A pipe made from the root of this plant.
    • Derived terms
    * briar-pipe

    thicket

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A dense, but generally small, growth of shrubs, bushes or small trees; a copse.
  • (figuratively) A dense aggregation of other things, concrete or abstract.
  • * {{quote-magazine, date=2013-07-19, author=(Timothy Garton Ash)
    • , volume=189, issue=6, page=18, magazine=(The Guardian Weekly) , title= Where Dr Pangloss meets Machiavelli , passage=Hidden behind thickets of acronyms and gorse bushes of detail, a new great game is under way across the globe. Some call it geoeconomics, but it's geopolitics too. The current power play consists of an extraordinary range of countries simultaneously sitting down to negotiate big free trade and investment agreements.}}
  • (computing, figuratively) 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.

    • Anagrams

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