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BRIARY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does briary mean?
• BRIARY (adjective)
The adjective BRIARY has 1 sense:
1. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Familiarity information: BRIARY used as an adjective is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
Synonyms:
barbed; barbellate; briary; briery; bristled; bristly; burred; burry; prickly; setaceous; setose; spiny; thorny
Context example:
setaceous whiskers
Similar:
armed ((used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns)
Derivation:
briar (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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