- a variation of bryony.
briony
Americannoun
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brionies
plural
noun
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Oftentimes substituted for the mandrake was the briony, which designing people sold at a good profit.
From The Folk-lore of Plants by T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton) Dyer
This plant, like the red-berried briony of England, is highly ornamental.
From Canadian Crusoes by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
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 Mary Cholmondeley
The berried briony garlands clung to the bared hedges, and here and there flared scarlet, still holding their red defiantly until hard frosts should come to shrivel and blacken them.
From The Shuttle by Frances Hodgson Burnett
She turned aside to pick a spray of briony.
From A Life For a Love A Novel by L. T. Meade
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