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Briary   Listen
adjective
briary  adj.  
1.
Having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns etc.; of plants or animals.
Synonyms: barbed, barbellate, briery, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, spiny, thorny.






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"Briary" Quotes from Famous Books



... melody of hounds increased, and each man, as he got through the little gate, rose in his stirrups and hustled his horse along the green ride to catch up those on before. The plantation was about twenty acres, rather thick and briary at the bottom; and master Reynard, finding it was pretty safe, and, moreover, having attempted to break just by where some chawbacons were ploughing, had headed short back, so that, when the excited field rushed through the parallel gate on the ...
— Mr. Sponge's Sporting Tour • R. S. Surtees

... spindle shaped, needle shaped; spiked, spiky, ensiform^, peaked, salient; cusped, cuspidate, cuspidated^; cornute^, cornuted^, cornicultate^; prickly; spiny, spinous^, spicular; thorny, bristling, muricated^, pectinated^, studded, thistly, briary^; craggy &c (rough) 256; snaggy, digitated^, two-edged, fusiform [Micro.]; dentiform^, denticulated; toothed; odontoid^; starlike; stellated^, stelliform^; sagittate^, sagittiform^; arrowheaded^; arrowy^, barbed, spurred. acinaciform; ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget



Words linked to "Briary" :   setaceous, barbellate, bristled, prickly, thorny, briar, setose



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