catbrier

/kat-brahy-er/US // ˈkætˌbraɪ ər //

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Definitions

n.名词 noun

1
- : any prickly vine of the genus Smilax, especially S. rotundifolia, of eastern North America, growing in tangled masses.

In the common catbrier or smilax we see two slender thread-like tendrils growing from the base of each leaf.
Sometimes it is a stem of the catbrier; again a rose or blackberry.
The sun was behind the cedar and barberry and catbrier banks.
There was privet budding and hawthorn fading, and barberry and catbrier and wild grape, in fresh June coloring.