Bryony Definition

brīə-nē
bryonies
noun
bryonies
Any of a genus (Bryonia) of perennial vines of the gourd family with large fleshy roots and greenish flowers.
Webster's New World
The black bryony.
American Heritage Medicine
Synonyms:
pronoun
A female given name.
Wiktionary
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Other Word Forms of Bryony

Noun

Singular:
bryony
Plural:
bryonies

Origin of Bryony

  • Latin bryōnia from Greek bruōniā from bruein to swell, teem

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Latin bryōnia (“bryony”), from Ancient Greek βρυωνία (bruōnia, “bryony”).

    From Wiktionary

  • From the bryony plant in the 19th century.

    From Wiktionary

Bryony Sentence Examples

  • Alston's observations were founded on what occurred in certain unisexual plants, such as Mercurialis, Spinach, Hemp, Hop and Bryony.

  • Scale of Metres o co 20 30 40 5 Scale of Yards 0 i p zo g o 40 ?o climbing plants with slender herbaceous or shrubby shoots, to which belong the yam and the British black bryony, Tamus communis.

  • They are generally of a more or less oval or elliptical form, or they may be globular, as in Mercurialis annua; at other times linear or clavate, curved, flexuose, or sinuose, as in bryony and gourd.

  • White bryony is a member of the melon family and black bryony is a member of the yarn family.

  • It will, perhaps, soon appear further north wherever there is white bryony.

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