BRIONY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does briony mean? 

• BRIONY (noun)
  The noun BRIONY 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: BRIONY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BRIONY (noun)

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 ("briony" 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 "briony"):

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 ("briony" is a member of...):

genus Bryonia (climbing perennial herbs: bryony)