nounbryonies

• A climbing Eurasian hedgerow plant with lobed hairy leaves and red berries.

  See also black bryony

  Bryonia dioica, the only British member of the gourd family (Cucurbitaceae)

  ‘The author suggests that the mandrake tradition may have originated in Persia, and other plants may have been previously similarly used in Northern Europe (e.g. bryony, Bryonia dioica) and in China (ginseng, Panax ginseng).’

  More example sentences

  • ‘The white bryony flowers are very small and have green veins.’
  • ‘The two listed active ingredients, white bryony (a type of vine) and potassium dichromate, are diluted to .000001 PPM and 1 PPM respectively.’
  • ‘This suggests that Gerarde did not distinguish clearly between red-berried, tendril-lacking Tamus communis L. and the red-berried, tendril-bearing Bryonia cretica L., which is also now known as the white bryony.’
  • ‘The only member of the cucumber or melon family to grow wild in Britain, white bryony is not related to black bryony.’