More fully wild neep. Any of several wild plants used medicinally; spec. white bryony, Bryonia dioica. Obsolete.

The Black Bryony, Tamus communis.

bryony.

(a) either of two white-flowered climbing plants, common bryony, Bryonia dioica, and traveller's joy, Clematis vitalba; (b) = whitebine n.

White bryony, Bryonia alba. Cf. psilothrum, n. 2. rare.

black bryony.

The English name of the plant-genus Bryonia (family Cucurbitaceæ); and spec. the common wild species (Bryonia dioica), sometimes called (in…

The common Bryony, Bryonia dioica; also, the berry of this plant.

black bryony, Tamus communis.

White bryony, Bryonia alba (formerly used in preparations for hair removal). Cf. psilothre, n. 2.

wild vine, the fox-grape, Vitis Labrusca (now rare or Obsolete); also, one or other of several wild climbing or trailing plants, esp. bryony and…

Black bryony, Tamus communis. Now chiefly English regional (northern) and rare.

a name given, from similarity of habit to the preceding, to an endogenous climbing plant, Lady's Seal, Tamus communis (family Dioscoreaceæ), wild in…

black bryony, Tamus communis.

a climbing plant of Barbados (not identified).

(see quot. 1715).

Bryonia dioica.

= sense 1.

(a) black bryony, Tamus communis; (b) the fruit of the cuckoo pint, Arum maculatum.

(a) the bryony, Bryonia dioica; (b) yellow wood-vine, a species of mulberry, Morus Calcar-galli.

The plant white bryony. Now English regional.