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Definition of Horse brier

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.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Horse Brier

Literary usage of Horse brier

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

1. Plant Names, Scientific and Popular, Including in the Case of Each Plant the by Albert Brown Lyons (1900)
"Ontario and eastern US Green-brier, Cat-brier, Horse-brier, Bamboo-brier, Biscuit-leaves, Bread-and-butter, Devil's Hop- vine, Hungry-vine, Nigger-head, ..."

2. Foundations of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen (1901)
"S. rotundifolia, L. GREEN-BRIER, CAT-BRIER, DOG-BRIER, HORSE-BRIER, WAIT-A-BIT. Stem green, strong; branchlets, and sometimes the branches, 4-angled, ..."

3. Foundations of Botany by Joseph Young Bergen (1901)
"S. rotundifolia, L. GREEN-BRIER, CAT-BRIER, DOG-BRIER, HORSE-BRIER, WAIT-A-BIT. Stem green, strong; branchlets, and sometimes the branches, 4-angled, ..."

4. Gray's New Manual of Botany: A Handbook of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of by Asa Gray, Benjamin Lincoln Robinson, Merritt Lyndon Fernald (1908)
"... BRIER, horse brier.) Stem as well as the terete branches armed with scattered prickles ; branchlets more or less 4-angular ; leaves ovate or round-ovate ..."

5. Report (1913)
"... diseases and as a general blood purifier. 113. Smilax hispida. Muhl. Green Brier. Thickets. Frequent. 114. Smilax rotundifolia, Lin. horse brier. ..."

6. The Foot-path Way by Bradford Torrey (1892)
"It was not abundant in either place, and in my eyes had less of beauty than its familiar relatives, the common greenbrier (cat-brier, horse-brier, ..."

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