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BRYONY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does bryony mean?
• BRYONY (noun)
The noun BRYONY has 1 sense:
1. a vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties
Familiarity information: BRYONY used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
A vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
briony; bryony
Hypernyms ("bryony" is a kind of...):
vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "bryony"):
Bryonia alba; devil's turnip; white bryony (white-flowered vine having thick roots and bearing small black berries; Europe to Iran)
Bryonia dioica; red bryony; wild hop (bryony having fleshy roots pale green flowers and very small red berries; Europe; North Africa; western Asia)
Holonyms ("bryony" is a member of...):
genus Bryonia (climbing perennial herbs: bryony)
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