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Greenbrier Township, Independence County, Arkansas
Greenbrier or Green Brier may refer to: * ''Smilax'', a plant genus commonly called greenbrier Places in the United States * Greenbrier, Alabama * Greenbrier, Arkansas * Green Brier, Illinois * Greenbrier, Indiana (other) * Greenbrier, Lexington, Kentucky * Greenbrier, Missouri * Greenbrier, Tennessee * Greenbrier, Virginia * Greenbrier (Great Smoky Mountains), a valley Tennessee * Greenbrier County, West Virginia * The Greenbrier, a resort in White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia ** a nuclear bunker under Project Greek Island Streams * Greenbrier River, in West Virginia, U.S. * Greenbrier Creek (Rocky River tributary), in North Carolina, U.S. Other uses * ''Greenbrier'' (film), the working title of ''El Camino: A Breaking Bad Movie'' * Greenbrier Classic, a PGA golf tournament * The Greenbrier Companies, an American manufacturing corporation * Greenbrier High School (other) * Chevrolet Greenbrier, the name of two vehicles See also * Brier (disambigu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Smilax
''Smilax'' is a genus of about 300–350 species, found in the tropics and subtropics worldwide. In China for example about 80 are found (39 of which are endemic), while there are 20 in North America north of Mexico. They are climbing flowering plants, many of which are woody and/or thorny, in the monocotyledon family Smilacaceae, native throughout the tropical and subtropical regions of the world. Common names include ''catbriers'', ''greenbriers'', ''prickly-ivys'' and ''smilaxes''. ''Sarsaparilla'' (also zarzaparrilla, sarsparilla) is a name used specifically for the Jamaican '' S. ornata'' as well as a catch-all term in particular for American species. Occasionally, the non-woody species such as the smooth herbaceous greenbrier (''S. herbacea'') are separated as genus ''Nemexia''; they are commonly known by the rather ambiguous name ''carrion flowers''. Greenbriers get their scientific name from the Greek myth of Crocus and the nymph Smilax. Though this myth h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
