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Briony

noun
1.
A vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties.  Synonym: bryony.






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"Briony" Quotes from Famous Books



... unusual. I will tell you, however. I left the house a little after eight o'clock this morning in the character of a groom out of work. There is a wonderful sympathy and freemasonry among horsey men. Be one of them, and you will know all that there is to know. I soon found Briony Lodge. It is a bijou villa, with a garden at the back, but built out in front right up to the road, two stories. Chubb lock to the door. Large sitting-room on the right side, well furnished, with long windows almost to the floor, and those preposterous English window ...
— The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle



Words linked to "Briony" :   wild hop, Bryonia alba, genus Bryonia, Bryonia dioica, devil's turnip, white bryony, red bryony, vine



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