bryony

How To Use bryony In A Sentence

• Here the hedges are best, not trimmed in brutal tidiness but rampant with hip-laden roses and garlanded by vivid bryony berries; and sprouting pithy wands of elder, strong grey spears of ash and angular spikes of black berried sloes.
• Most of the paintings are about 3¼ by 4 inches in size, captioned by four lines of Latin text with oversize, illuminated capitals and surrounded by wide borders of tiny bryony leaves on coiling vines. A Most Illuminating Show of Medieval Manuscript Pages
• In addition, both fresh and dried roots were used in medicine -- in a posset bryony was said to cure shortness of breath. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
• The author suggests that the mandrake tradition may have originated in Persia, and other plants may have been previously similarly used in Northern Europe (e.g. bryony, Bryonia dioica) and in China (ginseng, Panax ginseng).
• Within the sporocyst, a special form of asexual reproduction, known as polyembryony, then occurs.
• Bryony sighed as she hauled a bunch of thatch from the lower beams of the roof and began to spread the bundles across the upper framework.
• Most of my hedges are jungles of the various trees, draped with blackberry, dog-rose, bryony, honeysuckle and wild hop, all scrambling about the branches. Wildwood
• The apprentice who had kneaded the bread had not noticed anything unusual either, and since his feet were swathed, the bryony would not have reached his skin to cause a rash. Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine
• The only member of the cucumber or melon family to grow wild in Britain, white bryony is not related to black bryony.
• Bryony jogged along the narrow path worn into the floor of the forest.