brierpatch vs botany

brierpatch and botany both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
brierpatch	Yes	No	No	No
botany	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, botany is a hypernym of brierpatch; that is, botany is a word with a broader meaning than brierpatch:

Other hypernyms of brierpatch include flora, vegetation.

brierpatch (noun)	botany (noun)
tangled mass of prickly plants	the branch of biology that studies plants
	all the plant life in a particular region or period