GREENBRIER

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does greenbrier mean? 

• GREENBRIER (noun)
  The noun GREENBRIER 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: GREENBRIER used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GREENBRIER (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 ("greenbrier" is a kind of...):

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

Holonyms ("greenbrier" is a member of...):

genus Smilax; Smilax (sometimes placed in Smilacaceae)