单词 | briary |
释义 | briary (once / 231752 pages) adj WORD FAMILY briar: briars, briary USAGE EXAMPLESEvery few yards they had to climb half rotted tree trunks studded with briary creepers and alive with ants. Whitney, Elliott, The Blind Lion of the Congo(2010) Facing that briary jungle on the ground level was a little daunting. Norton, Andre, Star Born(2010) On mountain heights, in briary woods, I find Some rest; but every dwelling place on earth Appeareth to my eyes a deadly bane.... Biese, Alfred, The Development of the Feeling for...(2010) adj having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. Syn barbed, barbellate, briery, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny armed (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns |
随便看 |
英语词典包含147318条英英释义在线翻译词条,基本涵盖了全部常用单词的英英翻译及用法,是英语学习的有利工具。