briony
Americannoun
plural
brioniesnoun
Example Sentences
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She came towards him down the yellow glade through the sunshine and the shadow, with a spray of briony in her hand.
From The Danvers Jewels, and Sir Charles Danvers by Cholmondeley, Mary
The cottage was an old, black, timbered and thatched edifice, and had four rooms of considerable dimensions, two above and two below, with a porch in the front, overgrown with briony and another hardy creeper.
From Shanty the Blacksmith; a Tale of Other Times by Sherwood, Mrs. (Mary Martha)
Oftentimes substituted for the mandrake was the briony, which designing people sold at a good profit.
From The Folk-lore of Plants by Dyer, T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton)
And the chaplets of briony berries that look as if they had been thrown over the hedges are beginning to change to scarlet here and there.
From The Shuttle by Burnett, Frances Hodgson
Other wart-curing plants are the spurge, the poppy, the celandine, the marigold, the briony, and the crowfoot.
From Storyology Essays in Folk-Lore, Sea-Lore, and Plant-Lore by Taylor, Benjamin
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