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Definition of Greenbriers
1. greenbrier [n] - See also: greenbrier
Lexicographical Neighbors of Greenbriers
Literary usage of Greenbriers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Second Report of a Geological Reconnoissance of the Middle and Southern by Richard Owen (1860)
"... Papaw, Sassafras, greenbriers, Brambles, Elder Bushes, and Grape Vines.
The lower bottom is too sandy and too much exposed to overflows for cultivation; ..."
2. The Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture: A Discussion for the Amateur, and ...by Liberty Hyde Bailey by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1917)
"The greenbriers, useful for winter greens and outdoor planting. Usually woody
climbers with paired tendrils on the base of the petiole; sometimes shrubs or ..."
3. Proceedings of the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia by Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia (1903)
"They become covered wilh grapevines, Virginia creepers and greenbriers. The birds
and the wind scatter the seeds of many sorts of shrubs and bushes, ..."
4. The Wilson Bulletinby Wilson Ornithological Club, Nebraska Ornithologists' Union, Wilson Ornithological Society by Wilson Ornithological Club, Nebraska Ornithologists' Union, Wilson Ornithological Society (1900)
"... and coral moss are frequent, and tangles of greenbriers, chicken and fox grape
vines, also sweet and poison ..."
5. Our Southern Highlanders: A Narrative of Adventure in the Southern by Horace Kephart (1922)
"... all tangled up in greenbriers as thick as plough- lines. I had to fire twiste
afore he tumbled. ..."
6. Transactions of the Kansas Academy of Science by Kansas Academy of Science (1899)
"... of brush and greenbriers. I soon found the fresh tracks of two large panthers
and followed their tracks through and under the brush and vines and ..."
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