briery vs prickly

briery and prickly both are adjectives.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
briery	No	Yes	No	No
prickly	No	Yes	No	No

As adjectives, briery and prickly are synonyms defined as:

briery and prickly: having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

Other synonyms of briery include barbed, barbellate, briary, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny.

briery (adjective)	prickly (adjective)
having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.	having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
	very irritable