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Noun (1 meaning)

1. 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.

bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier, horse-brier, brier, briar, Smilax rotundifolia

greenbrier is a type of:

vine (noun) - a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface

greenbrier is a member of:

Smilax, genus Smilax (noun) - sometimes placed in Smilacaceae

greenbrier is derivationally related to:

barbed, barbellate, briary, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setose, setaceous, spiny, thorny (adjective) - having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.