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Definition of Bullbrier
1. Noun. 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.
Group relationships: Genus Smilax, Smilax
Generic synonyms: Vine
Derivative terms: Briary
Definition of Bullbrier
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bullbrier
Literary usage of Bullbrier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. American Phonography by William Lincoln Anderson (1908)
"... through the thicket, where the grouse were hatched ; past the8™ bullbrier
tangle, where the covey of quail once rested nightly; into the farmyard, ..."
2. Ways of Wood Folk by William Joseph Long (1900)
"in the woods at sunset sometimes hears it from a tangle of grapevine and bullbrier.
If he has the patience to push his way carefully through the underbrush, ..."
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