What's the difference between briar and eglantine?
Briar
Definition:
(n.) Same as Brier.
(n.) A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles; especially, species of Rosa, Rubus, and Smilax.
(n.) Fig.: Anything sharp or unpleasant to the feelings.
Example Sentences:
(1) The conidial heads of the fungus have a characteristic briar-pipe appearance in culture.
(2) The unique morphological characteristic of the conidial head resembling a briar pipe led to the identification of A. deflectus.
(3) We have to stop at 9pm because of provincial regulations, so we’re pushing through until then.” Briar Stewart (@briarstewart) I am at far south end of city.
(4) "It is a whitewash by the World Wildlife Fund and the Mexican government," the leading monarch expert Lincoln Brower of Sweet Briar College in Virginia said.
(5) In the normal habitat of the armadillo in Louisiana there are thorny bushes consisting mostly of the green briar and the southern dewberry.
(6) The extracellular matrix undergoes three distinct changes at fertilization: a) formation of a "smooth" layer below the vitelline envelope (VE), b) transformation of the VE itself to an altered VE composed of concentric fibrous sheets, and c) formation of a dense, "briar-patch"-like fertilization layer at the upper surface of the VE.
(7) Deakin had a habit of driving his cars until they were about to give out, then backing them into a particularly deep area of hedge and abandoning them, to be grown through by the briars and nested in by birds.
(8) Prince Charming hacked his way through the briars to wake Sleeping Beauty.
(9) Charlie Briar, senior fellow, cardiac intensive care unit, Great Ormond Street hospital, London Junior doctors are not 18-year-olds fresh out of school Junior doctors are not 18-year-old apprentices fresh out of school.
Eglantine
Definition:
(n.) A species of rose (Rosa Eglanteria), with fragrant foliage and flowers of various colors.
(n.) The sweetbrier (R. rubiginosa).
Example Sentences:
(1) We hurtled into Barcelona at speeds that should have torn Eglantine's juddering Peugeot 205 apart.
(2) The driver, who arrived in an explosion of laughter and messy blond hair, was an irrepressible force of nature who went by the name of Eglantine.
(3) A day later, I reconvened with Eglantine and her squatter friends to explore the city's Barrio Gótico.