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    HORSE BRIER

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     I. (noun) 

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    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 berriesplay

    Synonyms:

    briar; brier; bullbrier; catbrier; greenbrier; horse-brier; horse brier; Smilax rotundifolia

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("horse brier" is a kind of...):

    vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

    Holonyms ("horse brier" is a member of...):

    genus Smilax; Smilax (sometimes placed in Smilacaceae)

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