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bryony
or ²ú°ù¾±Â·´Ç·²Ô²â
[ brahy-uh-nee ]
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
/ ˈ²ú°ù²¹ÉªÉ™²Ôɪ /
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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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of bryony1
before 1000; Middle English brionie, Old English ²ú°ù²âŲԾ±²¹ < Latin < Greek: a wild vine
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of bryony1
Old English ²ú°ù²âŲԾ±²¹ , from Latin, from Greek ²ú°ù³ÜŲԾ±²¹
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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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