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Definition of Bryonies
1. bryony [n] - See also: bryony
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bryonies
Literary usage of Bryonies
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Contemporary Review (1893)
"The bryonies, both black and white, are chan as a moulding in Rouen Cathedral ;
beneath a brz Church, Notts; in a capital at Guisborough, numerous other ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1890)
"... black and white bryonies, henbane and milk-thistles, &c. The hot rocks are
often covered with yellow stone-crop and wild thyme, just as in Europe. ..."
3. The Beauties of Nature and the Wonders of the World We Live in by John Lubbock (1892)
"... decked with festoons of Traveller's Joy, the wild bryonies, and garlands of
Wild Roses covered with thousands of white or delicate pink flowers, ..."
4. An Historical and Descriptive Account of China: Its Ancient and Modern by Hugh Murray, John Crawfurd, Peter Gordon, Thomas Lynn, William Wallace, Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1836)
"Like the Tacca just mentioned, and the bryonies of Europe, its juices are
acrimonious ; but all acridity is dissipated by heat. ..."
5. My Devon Year by Eden Phillpotts (1904)
"I see now that the black bryonies best start their life's brief journey in
companionship, and so, cuddling round and round each other like a living rope, ..."
6. An English Village: A New Ed. of Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies, Clifton Johnson (1903)
"The stem of one of the bryonies withers up so completely that the shrinkage,
aided by a little wind, snaps it. Then a bunch of red berries may be seen ..."
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