briony
Americannoun
noun
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The vegetable kingdom also has been equally mindful of his majesty's food, the spurge having long been named "devil's milk" and the briony the "devil's cherry."
From The Folk-lore of Plants by Dyer, T. F. Thiselton (Thomas Firminger Thiselton)
She had stopped before a garland of briony that was drooping with beautiful leaves, making a garland of shadows upon the bricks.
From Old Kensington by Thackeray, Miss
Alice of the Hermitage brought two crowns of briony leaves and scarlet berries; so Morgraunt anointed what Morgraunt had set apart; the postulants were adept.
From The Forest Lovers by Hewlett, Maurice Henry
The briony garland has fallen from her hat, and a little hairy dog is now galloping about the lawn boastfully with it, his head held very high.
From Doctor Cupid by Broughton, Rhoda
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 Burnett, Frances Hodgson
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