bryony

Or ��·��·�Բ�

[brahy-uh-nee]

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noun

plural

bryonies

any Old World vine or climbing plant belonging to the genus Bryonia, of the gourd family, yielding acrid juice having emetic and purgative properties.

bryony

/ ˈ��ɪə��ɪ /

noun

any of several herbaceous climbing plants of the cucurbitaceous genus Bryonia , of Europe and N Africa See also black bryony white bryony

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Word History and Origins

Origin of bryony¹

before 1000; Middle English brionie, Old English ��ō�Ծ�� < Latin < Greek: a wild vine

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Word History and Origins

Origin of bryony¹

Old English ��ō�Ծ�� , from Latin, from Greek ��ō�Ծ��

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The ditch was thick with cow parsley, hemlock and long trails of green-flowering bryony.

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The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed.

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The dogwood berries stood jauntily scarlet on the hedge-tops, the bunched scarlet and green berries of the convolvulus and bryony hung amid golden trails, the blackberries dropped ungathered.

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The bryony and the honeysuckle I have already mentioned.

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By the alder a bryony vine that had grown there was broken and had withered, it had been snapped long since by the creature pushing through.

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bryology bryophyllum

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