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Briary

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Adjective

1. barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny

having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

Example Sentences:
'a horse with a short bristly mane'
'bristly shrubs'
'burred fruits'
'setaceous whiskers'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Briary

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noun
1. Also called: tree heath
an ericaceous shrub, Erica arborea, of S Europe, having a hard woody root (briarroot)
2. 
a tobacco pipe made from the root of this plant
noun
a variant spelling of brier1

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Briary

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noun
brier1
noun
1. 
a tobacco pipe made from the root of brier2 (sense 1)
2.  occas. sp. of
brier2 (sense 1) brier2 (sense 2)

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

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