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Definition of Greenbrier
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 Greenbrier
1. Noun. Any of several American prickly woody vines of the genus Smilax; the catbrier ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Greenbrier
1. [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Greenbrier
Literary usage of Greenbrier
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Great South: A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian by Edward King (1875)
"THE White Sulphur Springs are situated on Howard's creek, in greenbrier count}-,
West Virginia, and on the western slope of the Appalachian mountain chain, ..."
2. A History of the Seventh Day Baptists in West Virginia: Including the by Corliss Fitz Randolph (1905)
"THE greenbrier CHURCH. of records of the Green- brier Seventh Day Baptist Church
begins as follows: — "A few of the members of the New Salem Church residing ..."
3. Garrett County by Maryland Geological Survey (1902)
"greenbrier limestone Feet. 2. Thin-bedded preen sandstone and concealed ....120 .
... The greenbrier formation occurs at the surface in three entirely ..."
4. A History of the Rise and Progress of the Baptists in Virginia by Robert Baylor Semple (1894)
"greenbrier ASSOCIATION. [The stream from which this body took their name was in the
... Indian Creek church disappeared from the list of the greenbrier ..."
5. Garrett County by Maryland Geological Survey, Geological Survey (U.S.) (1902)
"greenbrier limestone Feet. 2. Thin-bedded preen sandstone and concealed ....120 3.
... The greenbrier formation occurs at the surface in three entirely ..."
6. History of West Virginia by Virgil Anson Lewis (1887)
"greenbrier. greenbrier, Rockbridge and Rockingham counties were ... The section
relating to the organization of greenbrier is as follows :— And be it ..."
7. The Southern States of North America: A Record of Journeys in Louisiana by Edward King (1875)
"THE White Sulphur Springs are situated on Howard's creek, in greenbrier county,
... On the south is Kates' mountain; on the west the greenbrier range, ..."
8. Mineral Resources of Virginia by Thomas Leonard Watson, Ray Smith Bassler, Heinrich Ries, Roy Jay Holden (1907)
"The greenbrier Limestone. The greenbrier limestone, Lower Carboniferous (Mississippian)
... XI and was subsequently named by him the greenbrier limestone. ..."
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