wild brier
Americannoun
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the dog rose, Rosa canina.
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the sweetbrier, Rosa eglanteria.
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any other brier growing wild.
noun
Example Sentences
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They search for blackberries, so weak And starving they are grown, Now through a thicket of wild brier, Now ’gainst a hindering stone!
From On the Tree Top by Curtis, Jessie
Dog-rose, the Rosa canīna, or wild brier, nat. ord.
From The New Gresham Encyclopedia Volume 4, Part 1: Deposition to Eberswalde by Various
The stream rushed on, the trees were the same, and in the hollow of the grotto the wild brier grew in its accustomed place, and the clinging moss and the ivy trails were unchanged.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 11, No. 25, April, 1873 by Various
Freckles turned to the trail, but he stopped at every wild brier to study the pink satin of the petals.
From Freckles by Stratton-Porter, Gene
I walked by his garden and saw the wild brier, The thorn and the thistle grow broader and higher.
From Dynevor Terrace: or, the clue of life — Volume 1 by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
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