bryony

See also: Bryony

English

A bryony (Bryonia dioica)

Wikispecies

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈbɹaɪəni/

• Audio (Southern England):

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Noun

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; […]

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 216:

     I cycled the three miles each morning between hedges draped with spangled cobwebs and berried bryony.

Alternative forms

• briony

Derived terms

• black bryony
• bryonin

Translations

herb of Bryonia

• Albanian: kulpër (sq) f (regional)
• Arabic: فَاشِرَا f (fāširā)
• Aramaic:

  Classical Syriac: ܦܫܪ ܐܫܬܝܢ m (pāšər ʾəštīn), ܦܫܪ ܫܬܝܢ m (pāšər štīn)

• Armenian: լոշտակ (hy) (loštak)

  Middle Armenian: լօշտակ (lōštak)

• Bulgarian: ^{(please verify)} дива тиква (diva tikva)
• Catalan: briònia f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 瀉根 / 泻根 (zh) (xiègēn)

• Czech: posed (cs) m
• Dacian: κινούβοιλα f (kinoúboila)
• Danish: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: koirannauris, koiranköynnös (fi)
• French: brione (fr) f
• Galician: norza f, brionia f, nabo caíño m, saltasebes f, boudaña f
• German: Zaunrübe f
• Greek:

  Ancient: βρυωνία f (bruōnía), ἄμπελος λευκή f (ámpelos leukḗ)

• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Italian: brionia f
• Kazakh: итжүзім (itjüzım)
• Latin: bryonia f
• Occitan: nap del diable m, ^{(please verify)} briònha f, ^{(please verify)} briònia f, ^{(please verify)} cocombrassa f, ^{(please verify)} cogorla salvatja f, ^{(please verify)} coja salvatja f, ^{(please verify)} coja de sèrp f, ^{(please verify)} cojada f, ^{(please verify)} cojarassa f, ^{(please verify)} tuquièr
• Ottoman Turkish: فاشرا (faşira)
• Persian: فاشرا (fâšerâ)
• Russian: пересту́пень (ru) m (perestúpenʹ), брио́ния (ru) f (briónija)
• Serbo-Croatian: bljúštac (sh) m
• Slovene: bljúščəc m
• Swedish: hundrova (sv) c