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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
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greenbrier
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Greenbrier is a valley in the northern Great Smoky Mountains of Tennessee , located in the Southeastern United States. Now a recreational area, Greenbrier was once home to a string of Appalachian communities. Greenbrier is situated along the Middle Fork ...
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Population (2000): 4940 Housing Units (2000): 1920 Land area (2000): 6.601195 sq. miles (17.097017 sq. km) Water area (2000): 0.028972 sq. miles (0.075037 sq. km) Total area (2000): 6.630167 sq. miles (17.172054 sq. km) FIPS code: 30960 Located within: ...
Wiktionary
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n. Any of several American prickly woody vines of the genus ''Smilax''; the catbrier
WordNet
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n. 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 [syn: bullbrier , catbrier , horse brier ...
Usage examples of greenbrier.
Captain Weston reached while driving to the Greenbrier Hotel was that he was in love with Janice Hardison.
He eyed Weston warily, while Weston repeated his tale about being at the Greenbrier, and not needing a pass because no passes were required.
Area Only authority to leave the grounds of the Greenbrier on the verbal orders of the commanding officer expired at midnight on Sunday.
When I got to the top of Greenbrier, I had to dodge out of the way of a fire-engine-red Jeep Cherokee that came surging up the rise and almost ran me off the road.
Once I found him all the way up on top of Greenbrier, headed downtown.
She unbuttoned her plain brownberry shirt and greenbrier pantaloons and pulled them off.
Then in the spring Diana and she would go to the Greenbrier or the Homestead.
Ford and Greenbrier - and had borne himself with such gallantry as not to attract the attention of his superior officers.
Corvan, a mint-condition 1966 Chevy Greenbrier, rear engine, air cooled.
When Ann made her way over, he was on tiptoe, hanging on to two greenbrier whips that had thorns on them like tiger claws.
Roger from Greenbrier Drive, she marveled at the self-possession of the three high school girls.
As she trudged across the blacktop to motion Roger from Greenbrier Drive, she marveled at the self-possession of the three high school girls.
The active campaign in the Greenbrier region was considered as closed for the season.
Deeper and deeper into the greenwood, wrestling the long sleds, kicking snarling, starving dogs around and past endless great tree-trunks, and through thick damp strands and twining hedges of holly, greenbrier, green lace, and hemlock.
This time Hume was rooting in the tall tangle of greenbriers over by the main gate.