WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

horse brier
    n 1: a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States
         growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with
         shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed
         by clusters of inedible shiny black berries [syn:
         bullbrier, greenbrier, catbrier, horse brier,
         horse-brier, brier, briar, Smilax rotundifolia]