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n. - A vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties.

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  • On the grey walls, the moss had fastened, and, round the pointed windows of the chapel, the ivy and the briony hung in many
  • The ground was padded with pine-needles, briony berries shone in the hedgerows below, and hips and haws and rowans also rioted in red.
  • The black-briony wreath was no longer on her head.
  • An overgrowth of brambles and briony ran riot over all.
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