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单词 dog-briar
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dog-briarn.

Brit. /ˈdɒɡˌbrʌɪə/, U.S. /ˈdɔɡˌbraɪər/, /ˈdɑɡˌbraɪər/
Forms: see dog n.1 and briar n.1
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; perhaps modelled on a Latin lexical item, or perhaps modelled on a Greek lexical item. Etymons: dog n.1, briar n.1
Etymology: < dog n.1 (compare dog n.1 Compounds 3c) + briar n.1, after classical Latin sentis canis or ancient Greek κυνόσβατος (compare also quot. 1591).
Now historical and rare.
Any of several wild roses, esp. the sweetbriar, Rosa eglanteria.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > thorn-tree or -bush > brier or wild rose-bush > [noun]
brierc1000
eglaterea1400
eglantinec1400
hound's thornc1420
dogberry1527
dog-briar1530
sweet-briar1538
brier-bush1562
dog bramble1567
canker1582
dog rose1597
canker rose1606
dog-thorn1694
cynorrhodon1706
bramble-rose1713
Scotch rose1731
white dog rose1770
brier-rose1810
bull-brier1860
missionary1881
burnet-rose1884
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 214/2 Dogge brere.
1565–73 T. Cooper Thesaurus Sentis canis, wilde Eglantine, or dogge bryer.
1591 R. Percyvall Bibliotheca Hispanica Dict. at Çarça perruna Dogge brier, Canis rubus.
1645 G. Walker Sermon 3 That is the Dog-bryar, and of all Brambles is most full of sharp hooked pricks, some hardned and dryed with heat of Sunne, so that they rend and teare where they catch hold.
a1682 Sir T. Browne Certain Misc. Tracts (1683) i. 9 The Hipp-briar is also named Κυνοσβάτος, or the Dog-briar or Bramble.
1773 Art of tanning & currying Leather 29 Cow hides and calf-skins may be tanned with a liquor made of all sorts of heaths.., we may use even the dog brier.
1787 Compl. Herbal I. 213 (heading) The wild rose, or dog briar.
1840 C. F. Hoffman Greyslaer II. xi. 42 A spot where some huge rocks, covered only with dog-briers let down the light..into the forest.
1887 Proc. Amer. Philos. Soc. 24 157 There is a thorny shrub, known in that county [sc. Kerry] as..‘dog briar’, whose white flowers are fixed close to the stem, while its thorns point downwards.
1909 H. Sutcliffe Priscilla of Good Intent 16 Hirst..set to work to pluck a root of dog-briar from its deep bed.
1998 Classical Q. New Ser. 48 312 In oracle-speak..a ‘wooden dog’ is not a dog but the dog-briar.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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