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Webster 1913 Edition
Bull brier
Bull′ briˊer
.(Bot.)
A species of Smilax (
Smilax Pseudo-China
) growing from New Jersey
to the Gulf of Mexico
, which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks, formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread, and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer; – called also bamboo brier
and China brier
.