Definition of "greenbrier" [greenbrier]

• See catbrier. (noun)

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• "Back in the day, if you wanted to eat, you ate a highly processed form of acorns and persimmons and chestnuts and greenbrier."
• "Surrounded by trees, thick sumac, honeysuckle, and vines of greenbrier and grape, the clearing was little bigger than the house itself."
• "We said little, our effort spent on ducking branches, wiggling around grape and greenbrier, or stepping over roots."