HORSE BRIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does horse brier mean? 

• HORSE BRIER (noun)
  The noun HORSE BRIER has 1 sense:

1. 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

  Familiarity information: HORSE BRIER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HORSE BRIER (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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

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

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)