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Bryony   Listen
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Bryony  n.  (Bot.) The common name of several cucurbitaceous plants of the genus Bryonia. The root of Bryonia alba (rough bryony or white bryony) and of Bryonia dioica is a strong, irritating cathartic.
Black bryony, a plant (Tamus communis) so named from its dark glossy leaves and black root; black bindweed.





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"Bryony" Quotes from Famous Books



... lanes, from bough to bough Like tissue woven in a fairy loom; And crimson-berried bryony garlands glow ...
— Some Private Views • James Payn
... it is fair: The kindly green and rounded trunks, that meet Under the soil with twinings of their feet And in the sky with twinings of their arms: The yellow stools: the still ungathered charms Of berry, woodland herb, and bryony, And mid-wood's ...
— Georgian Poetry 1920-22 • Various


Words linked to "Bryony" :   Bryonia alba, genus Bryonia, devil's turnip, white bryony, briony, wild hop, red bryony, vine, black bryony, Bryonia dioica


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