brier patch

1. 1.

   tangled mass of prickly plants

   Synonymsbrierbrierpatch

   Broadervegetation

Questions about brier patch

What does brier patch mean?

brier patch means "tangled mass of prickly plants".

What is another word for brier patch?

Close synonyms include brier, brierpatch. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is brier patch a common word?

brier patch is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.