horse-brier
- noun
- /ˈhɔrsˌbraɪər/
- US
:
espino de caballo
- She recognized the distinctive shiny leaves of the horse-brier along the forest edge.
Examples
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Gardeners often struggle to remove horse-brier due to its tough stems and tangled growth.
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The thicket was full of horse-brier, making it nearly impossible to walk through.
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The horse-brier can often be found in dense thickets.
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Many gardeners dislike the horse-brier for its prickly nature.
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Gardeners often struggle to remove horse-brier due to its tough stems and tangled growth.
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The thicket was full of horse-brier, making it nearly impossible to walk through.
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She recognized the distinctive shiny leaves of the horse-brier along the forest edge.
Synonyms
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9.9
A climbing woody plant with sharp thorns, shiny leaves, and berries you cannot eat
A prickly vine with hard round stems and shiny black berries that are not edible
A very prickly climbing plant with tough stems and shiny black berries not for eating
A prickly woody vine with round stems, shiny leaves, and black berries in eastern woods
A very prickly vine with shiny round leaves and clusters of black berries you cannot eat
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Horse-brier is made of horse and brier, where brier means 'thorny bush' and horse often shows something large or rough. A helpful way to remember it is to picture a horse tangled in a big prickly bush, which explains why the name fits this very prickly, woody vine.