NOUN
- 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
How To Use greenbrier In A Sentence
- Greenbrier vines and a vine known as supplejack climb over some of the vegetation.
- The undergrowth is often dense with dwarf palmettos and with such vines as earleaf, saw greenbriers (both very prickly), muscadine, and summer grape, all tough on hikers.
- Common midstory and understory species included red maple, American beech, greenbrier, and spicebush.
- Because the canopy is relatively open here, the vegetation is often overgrown with rattan vine, greenbrier, wild grape, pepper vine, trumpet creeper, Virginia creeper, and poison ivy.
- Only once was the congressional retreat beneath the Greenbrier Hotel put on alert and readied for possible occupancy.
- Orange-blossom was another favourite, often wired on to garlands of greenbrier (Smilax sp.) and pinned to the wedding dress in tiers.
- Brush" isn't one thing at all, but hundreds of species of native plants - wild cranberry, prickly ash, nannyberry, red-twig dogwood, hornbeam, greenbrier, witch hazel. CounterPunch
- The undergrowth is often dense with dwarf palmettos and with such vines as earleaf, saw greenbriers (both very prickly), muscadine, and summer grape, all tough on hikers.
- Only once was the congressional retreat beneath the Greenbrier Hotel put on alert and readied for possible occupancy.
- The removal of understory vegetation, such as greenbrier, would aid in the movement and predator vigilance of the Delmarva fox squirrel.
