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Definition of Catbrier

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.

Definition of Catbrier

1. a thorny vine [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Catbrier

Literary usage of Catbrier

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William MacKinley Klein (1993)
"catbrier; Greenbrier Woody vine Dry to moist, sandy soil of fields, woods, ... A.Gray GBC Smilax rotundifolia L. catbrier; Greenbrier Woody vine Moist to ..."

2. The Vascular Flora of Pennsylvania: Annotated Checklist and Atlas by Ann Fowler Rhoads, William M. Klein (1993)
"FACU catbrier; Greenbrier Woody vine Dry to moist, sandy soil of fields, ... A.Gray GBC Smilax rotundifolia L. catbrier; Greenbrier Woody vine Moist to dry ..."

3. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1907)
"Throughout the eastern half of the United States and Upper Canada the catbrier displays its insignificant little blossoms from April to June for a ..."

4. Elements of Biology: A Practical Text-book Correlating Botany, Zoology, and by George William Hunter (1907)
"catbrier; the tendrils (7-) are modified stipules (parts nf leaves); Th, thorn. ... Virginia creeper, catbrier, white bryony, sr any others you may find. ..."

5. Nature's Garden: An Aid to Knowledge of Our Wild Flowers and Their Insect by Neltje Blanchan (1900)
"Throughout the eastern half of the United States and Upper Canada the catbrier displays its insignificant little blossoms from April to June for a ..."

6. The Auk: Quarterly Journal of Ornithology by American Ornithologists' Union, Nuttall Ornithological Club (1915)
"Through rank tangles of beach plum, black cherry, grape vine, catbrier and poison ivy, we pushed our way to the more open ground under some of the larger ..."

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