bryony
Americannoun
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bryonies
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of bryony
before 1000; Middle English brionie, Old English bryōnia < Latin < Greek: a wild vine
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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 "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
The ditch was thick with cow parsley, hemlock and long trails of green-flowering bryony.
From "Watership Down: A Novel" by Richard Adams
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 The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Some dozen varieties of ornament were employed during the 15th and early 16th centuries, including mock arabic inscriptions, various flower or foliage patterns taken from the vine, bryony, &c., and gadroons.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 6 "Celtes, Konrad" to "Ceramics" by Various
This explains the pre-eminently conchological aspect of the magical properties of the mandrake and the bryony.
From The Evolution of the Dragon by G. Elliot Smith
The stem of one of the bryonies withers up so completely that the shrinkage, aided by a little wind, snaps it.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies
The number of different kinds of bushes in the hedgerows, entwined by traveller's joy and the bryonies, is conspicuous compared with the hedges of the northern counties.
From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 1 by Sir Francis Darwin
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