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(noun) tangled mass of prickly plants |
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Synonyms: bier patch, brierpatch |
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Related Words: flora, vegetation |
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(noun) a thorny stem or twig |
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Related Words: branchlet, sprig, twig |
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(noun) evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes |
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Synonyms: Erica arborea, briar, tree heath |
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Related Words: erica, true heath |
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(noun) Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips |
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Synonyms: Rosa eglanteria, briar, eglantine, sweetbriar, sweetbrier |
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Related Words: rose |
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(noun) 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 |
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Synonyms: Smilax rotundifolia, briar, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horsebrier |
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Related Words: vine |
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