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单词 brier
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brier
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WORD FAMILY
brier: briers, briery
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Briers said he heard a siren go off shortly afterward and saw zookeepers running from the scene and telling visitors to get inside.
Washington Times(Oct 13, 2016)
“This is an ominous step,” Professor Brier said.
New York Times(Sep 06, 2016)
Dan Anderson heard on the radio that responding officers felt vulnerable and raced the 12 miles between Brier and Mukilteo to help.
Washington Times(Aug 19, 2016)
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1n a thorny stem or twig
Hyper
branchlet, sprig, twig
a small branch or division of a branch (especially a terminal division); usually applied to branches of the current or preceding year
2n tangled mass of prickly plants
Syn|Hyper
brier patch, brierpatch
botany, flora, vegetation
all the plant life in a particular region or period
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n Eurasian rose with prickly stems and fragrant leaves and bright pink flowers followed by scarlet hips
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Rosa eglanteria, briar, eglantine, sweetbriar, sweetbrier
rose, rosebush
any of many shrubs of the genus Rosa that bear roses
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n 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
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Smilax rotundifolia, briar, bullbrier, catbrier, greenbrier, horse brier, horse-brier
vine
a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface
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n evergreen treelike Mediterranean shrub having fragrant white flowers in large terminal panicles and hard woody roots used to make tobacco pipes
Syn|Hyper
Erica arborea, briar, tree heath
erica, true heath
any plant of the genus Erica
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