How To Use Bryony In A Sentence
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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.
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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
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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
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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).
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Within the sporocyst, a special form of asexual reproduction, known as polyembryony, then occurs.
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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.
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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
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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
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The only member of the cucumber or melon family to grow wild in Britain, white bryony is not related to black bryony.
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Bryony jogged along the narrow path worn into the floor of the forest.
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On arriving in Texas, he spent most of his research efforts studying polyembryony, first in the armadillo, and then in various parasitic wasps.
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There were two horses under the oak where Bryony had left Drake and she immediately recognized the second as Driscoll's roan.
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Not the rat-a-tat Greek heard in the Plaka of Athens, but majestic classical Greek, whose syllables flow like wine down our gullets -- polyembryony.
VERBATIM: The Language Quarterly Vol XIII No 3
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It must have been a last moonflower vision that showed me jasmine and bryony growing all over the bed, I entwine.
Wildfire
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I have been having a lovely girly chat with my good friend Bryony who called me out of the blue.
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(Liliaceae) polyembryony results from an adventitious production of embryos from the cells of the nucellus around the top of the embryo-sac.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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Polyembryony was further characterized by determining DNA content and fingerprints of embryos obtained from 157 polyembryonic kernels.
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The miracidia will then penetrate prosobranch snails, Elimia symmetrica, where they will transform first into mother sporocysts, which will give rise to daughter sporocysts via polyembryony.
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A characteristic feature of gymnosperms is polyembryony manifested in the formation of more than one embryo in immature seed.
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Bryony spotted the lone figure emerging from the water, the current lapping at his body.
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In the Book of Venoms, he listed arsenic, aconite, hellebore, laurel, opium, bryony, mandrake, leopard's gall, and menstrual blood.
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Philip and his niece Bryony escaped injury when the camper van they were travelling in burst into flames in the middle of the road.
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This suggests that Gerarde did not distinguish clearly between red-berried, tendril-lacking Tamus communis L. and the red-berried, tendril-bearing Bryonia cretica L., which is also now known as the white bryony.
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The two listed active ingredients, white bryony (a type of vine) and potassium dichromate, are diluted to .000001 PPM and 1 PPM respectively.
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Carolyn watched Bryony pick up her green parcel and shake it.
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In adventitious embryony, the embryo develops directly from nucellar or chalazal tissue without an intervening gametophyte stage.
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Remembering the way Chandra and Lydia had embraced her, Bryony wrapped her arms about the child.
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O'er the muir, amang the heather," Eleanor's walk had gone; and her basket was gay with gorse and broom just opening; but from grassy banks on her way she had brought the bright blue speedwell; and clematis and bryony from the hedges, and from under them wild hyacinth and white campion and crane's-bill and primroses; and a meadow she had passed over gave her one or two pretty kinds of orchis, with daisies and cowslips, and grasses of various kinds.
The Old Helmet
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The white bryony flowers are very small and have green veins.
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The incessant barking of the bloodhounds grated on Bryony's nerves, and Drake's movements jarred her concentration.
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In 1984, after her husband's death, Betty opened Giraffe Manor as a guesthouse, which is now run by her son from her first marriage, Rick Anderson, and his wife, Bryony.
To the Manor Born
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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.
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(Liliaceae) polyembryony results from an adventitious production of embryos from the cells of the nucellus around the top of the embryo-sac.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Part 1, Slice 1
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There were stares and whispers as Bryony dismounted in the bailey, handing the reins to Tauno, one of her soldiers.
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She tried to avoid Bryony, which was difficult because she could not work out her routine.
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Newmania agree bryony is awful. sam leith though is great. a real libertarian conservative.
The Telegraph and the Tories
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Bryony flared her nostrils, catching the scent of cooked meat.
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Three-banded armadillos developed a unique antipredator strategy by entirely rolling up into a ball, and nine-banded armadillos are the only vertebrates to reproduce by obligate monozygotic polyembryony.
