单词 | briery |
释义 | briery (once / 64587 pages) adj WORD FAMILY brier: briers, briery USAGE EXAMPLESTwo years ago, Ron Briery, a 67-year-old retired high school music teacher, walked the entire 800 mile trail in less than two months. New York Times(Jul 18, 2013) The little things, the little briery things of life were holding her fast, tripping her headlong desires. Hughes, Rupert, What Will People Say?—A novel(2011) Here he loves to hide in such low, briery, bushy tangles as the chat and catbird choose. Blanchan, Neltje, Birds Every Child Should Know(2011) adj having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc. Syn barbed, barbellate, briary, bristled, bristly, burred, burry, prickly, setaceous, setose, spiny, thorny armed (used of plants and animals) furnished with bristles and thorns |
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