ADJECTIVE
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having or covered with protective barbs or quills or spines or thorns or setae etc.
setaceous whiskers
burred fruits
a horse with a short bristly mane
bristly shrubs
How To Use briery In A Sentence
- It was a grassy, briery, moist defile, affording some shelter to any person who had sought it; but the party perambulated it in vain, and ascended on the other side. Wessex Tales
- BRIERY: I usually think of California Zinfandel rather than Bordeaux when the term briery comes into play. The World’s Greatest Wine Estates