bryony

From Middle English brionie, from Latin bryōnia (“bryony”), from Ancient Greek βρυωνία (bruōnía, “bryony”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹaɪəni/

bryony (countable and uncountable, plural bryonies)

1. A perennial herb of the genus Bryonia, especially the common wild species Bryonia dioica.
   • 1855, Alfred Tennyson, “The Brook; an Idyl”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 112:

     On a sudden a low breath / Of tender air made tremble in the hedge / The fragil bindweed-bells and briony rings; […]

• briony

• black bryony