Difference between Briar and Thorn

What is the difference between Briar and Thorn?

Briar as a noun is any of a number of unrelated thicket-forming thorny plants. while Thorn as a noun is a sharp protective spine of a plant.

Briar

Part of speech: noun

Definition: Any of a number of unrelated thicket-forming thorny plants. A pipe made from the burl of the white heath tree.

Thorn

Part of speech: noun

Definition: A sharp protective spine of a plant.A letter of the Latin alphabet (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

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