briar

noun briar

• shrubbery — a planting of shrubs: He hit the croquet ball into the shrubbery.
• plant — any member of the kingdom Plantae, comprising multicellular organisms that typically produce their own food from inorganic matter by the process of photosynthesis and that have more or less rigid cell walls containing cellulose, including vascular plants, mosses, liverworts, and hornworts: some classification schemes may include fungi, algae, bacteria, blue-green algae, and certain single-celled eukaryotes that have plantlike qualities, as rigid cell walls or photosynthesis.
• hinterland — Often, hinterlands. the remote or less developed parts of a country; back country: The hinterlands are usually much more picturesque than the urban areas.
• scrub — to rub hard with a brush, cloth, etc., or against a rough surface in washing.
• wilderness — a wooded area in NE Virginia: several battles fought here in 1864 between armies of Grant and Lee.