Full of, covered with, or resembling briers; prickly and thorny.
From brier (prickly shrub) + -y (adjective suffix). This creates an adjective expressing the characteristic quality of brier plants.
Briery landscapes gave birth to entire genres of poetry—Romantic poets loved using thorny, briery imagery to represent love's pain and life's obstacles.
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