bryony

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From Middle English brionie, from Latin bryōnia (“bryony”), from Ancient Greek βρυωνία (bruōnía, “bryony”), from βρύω (brúō).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹaɪəni/

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bryony (countable and uncountable, plural bryonies)

1. 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; […]

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 216:

     I cycled the three miles each morning between hedges draped with spangled cobwebs and berried bryony.

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