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dog-briers

dog-briers is the plural of dog-brier.

Meaning of dog-brier

Noun

dog-brier (plural dog-briers)

  1. A dog rose (Rosa canina).
    • The hazel-boughs took me too hard in the face, and the tall dog-briers got hold of me, and the ache of my back was like crimping a fish1869, R[ichard] D[oddridge] Blackmore, chapter X, in Lorna Doone: A Romance of Exmoor. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to III), London: Sampson Low, Son, & Marston, […], →OCLC

Questions about dog-briers

What is dog-briers the plural of?
Dog-briers is the plural of dog-brier.

Words near dog-briers in the dictionary

  1. dog-bees
  2. dog-belt
  3. dog-belts
  4. dog-bread
  5. dog-brier
  6. dog-briers
  7. dog-catcher
  8. dog-catchers
  9. dog-cheap
  10. dog-cherries
  11. dog-cherry

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