Brier

(noun.) tangled mass of prickly plants.

(noun.) a thorny stem or twig.

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• A nice old brier with a good long stem of what the tobacconists call amber. 阿瑟·柯南·道尔. 福尔摩斯回忆录.
• She thought of the wood, and stole towards it, heedless of long grass and briers: of worms, snails, and slugs, and all the creeping things that be. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• What thorns and briers, what flints, he strewed in the path of feet not inured to rough travel! 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 维莱特.

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