Covered with brambles or resembling brambles; thorny and prickly with dense growth.
From bramble (Old English 'brembel', possibly from Celtic roots meaning a prickly shrub) + -y (adjective-forming suffix). Used since at least medieval times to describe thorny terrain.
Brambly thickets are nature's barbed wire—they create perfect wildlife refuges where predators can't easily reach nests, while the berries feed hundreds of bird and mammal species.
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