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briary

briary \briary\ adj. 1. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns etc.; -- of plants or animals.

Syn: barbed, barbellate, briery, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, spiny, thorny.

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briary

a. Like a briar; thorny.

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briary

adj. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers" [syn: barbed, barbellate, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny]

Usage examples of "briary".

Place next to where I was fostered at your age, old Lady Cedrys at Briary Holding.

Job Caudle was left in this briary world without his daily guide and nocturnal monitress, he was in the ripe fulness of fifty-seven.

A rosebush grew at the foot of the tower: a hybrid, half wild rose, half Cuisse de Nymphe, with twelve petals and briary canes.

Place next to where I was fostered at your age, old Lady Cedrys at Briary Holding.

A rosebush grew at the foot of the tower: a hybrid, half wild rose, half Cuisse de Nymphe, with twelve petals and briary canes.