horse-brier

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

   Synonymsbullbriergreenbriercatbrierhorse brierbrierbriarSmilax rotundifolia

   Broadervine

   Part ofSmilax

Questions about horse-brier

What does horse-brier mean?

horse-brier 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 horse-brier?

horse-brier has 3 syllables: hor-se--brier. The stress falls on "hor".

What is another word for horse-brier?

Close synonyms include bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, 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 horse-brier a common word?

horse-brier is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.