bryony
See also: Bryony
English
editEtymology
editFrom Middle English brionie, from Latin bryōnia (“bryony”), from Ancient Greek βρυωνία (bruōnía, “bryony”), from βρύω (brúō).
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editbryony (countable and uncountable, plural bryonies)
- A perennial herb of the genus Bryonia, especially the common wild species Bryonia dioica.
- 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “The Brook; an Idyl”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 112:
- On a sudden a low breath / Of tender air made tremble in the hedge / The fragil bindweed-bells and briony rings; […]
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editherb of Bryonia
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