BLACK BRYONY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does black bryony mean? 

• BLACK BRYONY (noun)
  The noun BLACK BRYONY has 1 sense:

1. common European twining vine with tuberous roots and cordate leaves and red berries

  Familiarity information: BLACK BRYONY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BLACK BRYONY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Common European twining vine with tuberous roots and cordate leaves and red berries

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

black bindweed; black bryony; Tamus communis

Hypernyms ("black bryony" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Holonyms ("black bryony" is a member of...):

genus Tamus; Tamus (a genus of tuberous vines of the family Dioscoreaceae; has twining stems and heart-shaped leaves and axillary racemes)