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Definition of "black bryony" []

  • A poisonous, perennial twining herb (Tamus communis) native to Eurasia and sometimes grown as an ornamental for its red berries. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "black bryony" in a sentence
  • "She would come home loaded with wild thyme and gorse and black bryony and saxifrage and orchis flowers, having scoured hill and meadow and robbed the hedge-rows for them, which also gave her great tribute of wild roses."
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