| Instead of the dark and forbidding overgrowth of brush, briars, and devil's club, everything Mack could see was not postcard perfect. [2, p. 83] |
It appears that brush can be used to refer to any type of messy grouping of fauna that one wishes to describe. Apparently it can refer to dense bushes, a pile of branches, a mix of thickly growing trees and bushes, an area covered with thickly growing trees and bushes, and even a wooded region with few settlers.
Briars are also a nonspecific term for fauna, except that prickliness is implied. Briar can also refer to a messy growth of bushes and shrubs.
Devil's club refers specifically to Oplopanax horridus, a spiny type of shrub.
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