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GREENBRIER
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries
Synonyms:
briar; brier; bullbrier; catbrier; greenbrier; horse-brier; horse brier; Smilax rotundifolia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("greenbrier" is a kind of...):
vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)
Holonyms ("greenbrier" is a member of...):
genus Smilax; Smilax (sometimes placed in Smilacaceae)