Briery Definition & Meaning

briery
adjective
  1. having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.; "a horse with a short bristly mane"; "bristly shrubs"; "burred fruits"; "setaceous whiskers"

Synonyms for briery

armed

(used of persons or the military) characterized by having or bearing arms

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barbed

capable of wounding; "a barbed compliment"; "a biting aphorism

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barbellate

having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

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bristled

having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

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bristly

very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful

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burred

having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

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burry

having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.

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prickly

very irritable; "bristly exchanges between the White House and the press"; "he became prickly and spiteful

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spiny

having spines; "the dorsal fin is spinous" having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or

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thorny

bristling with perplexities; "the thorny question of states' rights" having or covered with protective barbs or quills

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