brier vs erica

brier and erica both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
brier	Yes	No	No	No
erica	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, erica is a hypernym of brier; that is, erica is a word with a broader meaning than brier:

brier: evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
erica: any plant of the genus Erica

Other hypernyms of brier include true heath.

brier (noun)	erica (noun)
evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes	any plant of the genus Erica
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
Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
tangled mass of prickly plants
a thorny stem or twig

Difference between brier and erica

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