GENUS BRYONIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Bryonia mean? 

• GENUS BRYONIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS BRYONIA has 1 sense:

1. climbing perennial herbs: bryony

  Familiarity information: GENUS BRYONIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS BRYONIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Climbing perennial herbs: bryony

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Bryonia" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "genus Bryonia"):

briony; bryony (a vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties)

Holonyms ("genus Bryonia" is a member of...):

Cucurbitaceae; family Cucurbitaceae; gourd family (a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin))