Crossword clues for bryony
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bryony \Bry"o*ny\ (br[imac]"[-o]*n[y^]), n. [L. bryonia, Gr. brywni`a, fr. bry`ein to swell, esp. of plants.] (Bot.) The common name of several cucurbitaceous plants of the genus Bryonia. The root of Bryonia alba ( rough bryony or white bryony) and of Bryonia dioica is a strong, irritating cathartic.
Black bryony, a plant ( Tamus communis) so named from its dark glossy leaves and black root; black bindweed. [1913 Webster] ||
Wiktionary
n. A perennial herb, of genus (taxlink Bryonia genus noshow=1), especially the common wild species, (taxlink Bryonia dioica species noshow=1).
WordNet
n. a tendril-bearing vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties [syn: briony]
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "bryony".
The first frosts, on the other hand, shrivel the bines of white bryony, which part and hang separated, and in the spring a fresh bine pushes up with greyish green leaves and tendrils feeling for support.
As it withers, the many-pointed leaf of the white bryony and the bine as it shrivels, in like manner, do their part.
The popular herbal drink known as Hop Bitters is said to owe many of its supposed virtues to the bryony root, substituted for the mandrake which it is alleged to contain.
It has smooth heart-shaped leaves, and produces scarlet, elliptical berries larger than those of the White Bryony.
The rapids lacked the depth and grandeur of Aysgarth Force, the beauty of the Falls of Rogie or the cascading hill-top tumble and roar of Ardessie, all of which Bryony had seen, but, although they were on a smaller scale, the rapids at Watersmeet were reminiscent, because of their woodland surroundings and the way they foamed over the boulders, of the Falls of Bracklinn, she thought.
Falls of Dochart, either, Bryony decided, remembering holiday photographs she had taken when she and her sister had gone with their father on holiday to Scotland, although the scene at Watersmeet certainly lacked the backdrop of the mountains behind Killin.
Bryony proceeded to tell the story of how curiosity had taken her to Watersmeet and of the hole in the bank which had interested the hound.
Bryony that we wanted to borrow Sekhmet and take her to Watersmeet with us?
No wonder they believe in the efficacy of a similar attenuation of bryony or pulsatilla.
Hot quintessential drops of bryony juice, Squeezed out in anguish: all of that once vast!
The sunshine lingers and grows sweeter as the autumn gives tokens of its coming in the buff bryony leaf, and the acorn filling its cup.
The first gives most fascinating facts about such a common plant, for example, as the hedge bryony and the circular motion of its tendrils.
The remaining traces of the fences are a few curls of rusting wire stapled to wooden posts almost hidden by bryony and convolvulus.
They do not drive so hard a bargain as Bryony House, who know well the erotic power money holds, but they are no slouches in Eglantine.
It was in the Hall of Games that she approached me, where I watched Fortun engaged in a game of rhythmomachy with the Baronesse de Carvoile, whose mother had been an adept of Bryony House.