erica vs brier

erica and brier both are nouns.

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

As nouns, brier is a hyponym of erica; that is, brier is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than erica:

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

Other hyponyms of erica include briar, Erica arborea, tree heath, Erica carnea, spring heath, winter heath, bell heather, Erica cinerea, fine-leaved heath, heather bell, bell heather, cross-leaved heath, Erica tetralix, Cornish heath, Erica vagans, Erica lusitanica, Portuguese heath, Spanish heath, Erica perspicua, Prince-of-Wales'-heath, Prince of Wales heath.

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

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