bryony

American  

[brahy-uh-nee] / ˈbraɪ ə ni /

Or briony

noun

plural

bryonies

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

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bryony British  

/ ˈbraɪənɪ /

noun

1. 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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Etymology

Origin of bryony

before 1000; Middle English brionie, Old English bryōnia < Latin < Greek: a wild vine

Example Sentences

They were coming to a thicket of juniper and dog roses, tangled at ground level with nettles and trails of bryony on which the berries were now beginning to ripen and turn red.

From Literature

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

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg

Here and there wild roses, pale pink or deepest crimson, blush out; here and there are patches of honeysuckle, and here and there waves of the white flowery bryony roll foaming over the green.

From Project Gutenberg

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.

From Project Gutenberg