Dog-brier

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Noun
  1. 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 fish"

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"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 fish"

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