Briar vs. Thorn

Briarnoun

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

Briarnoun

(figurative) Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.

Briarnoun

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

Briarnoun

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

Briarnoun

Same as Brier.

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.

Thornnoun

(botany) A sharp protective spine of a plant.

Thornnoun

Any shrub or small tree that bears thorns, especially a hawthorn.

Thornnoun

(figurative) That which pricks or annoys; anything troublesome.

Thornnoun

A letter of Latin script (capital: Þ, small: þ), borrowed by Old English from the futhark to represent a dental fricative, then not distinguished from eth, but in modern use (in Icelandic and other languages, but no longer in English) used only for the voiceless dental fricative found in English thigh

Thornverb

To pierce with, or as if with, a thorn

Thornnoun

A hard and sharp-pointed projection from a woody stem; usually, a branch so transformed; a spine.

Thornnoun

Any shrub or small tree which bears thorns; especially, any species of the genus Cratægus, as the hawthorn, whitethorn, cockspur thorn.

Thornnoun

Fig.: That which pricks or annoys as a thorn; anything troublesome; trouble; care.

Thornnoun

The name of the Anglo-Saxon letter , capital form . It was used to represent both of the sounds of English th, as in thin, then. So called because it was the initial letter of thorn, a spine.

Thornverb

To prick, as with a thorn.

Thornnoun

something that causes irritation and annoyance;

Thornnoun

a sharp-pointed tip on a stem or leaf

Thornnoun

a Germanic character of runic origin