catbrier

1. 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

   Synonymsbullbriergreenbrierhorse brierhorse-brierbrierbriarSmilax rotundifolia

   Broadervine

   Part ofSmilax

Other forms of catbrier

plural

catbriers·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about catbrier

What does catbrier mean?

catbrier means "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".

How many syllables are in catbrier?

catbrier has 2 syllables: cat-brier. The stress falls on "cat".

What is another word for catbrier?

Close synonyms include bullbrier, greenbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, brier. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is catbrier a common word?

catbrier is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.