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Definition of Red bryony
1. Noun. Bryony having fleshy roots pale green flowers and very small red berries; Europe; North Africa; western Asia.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Red Bryony
Literary usage of Red bryony
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Edinburgh Medical Journal (1885)
"The young shoots of the black bryony, according to Balfour, are occasionally used
as asparagus, but they are not safe. The red bryony, Bryonia dioica, ..."
2. Life and Sport in Hampshire by George Albemarle Bertie Dewar (1908)
"It may appeal to us when we see the red bryony stretching forth its ... This red
bryony belongs to an order of plants different altogether from the black ..."
3. Applied and Economic Botany: Especially Adapted for the Use of Students in by Henry Kraemer (1914)
"Bryonia dioica (red bryony) also has medicinal properties and is a source of the
drug. B. dioica has red berries, while the fruit of B. alba is black. ..."
4. Text-book of Botany and Pharmacognosy by Henry Kraemer (1908)
"Bryonia dioica (red bryony) also has medicinal properties and is a source of the
drug. B. dioica has red berries, while the fruit of B, alba is black. ..."
5. The English Cyclopaedia by Charles Knight (1866)
"The Wild Bryony or red bryony of our hedges, Bryonia dioica, is a plant formerly
much employed in rural pharmacy, but now disused. ..."
6. The Writing of English by John Matthews Manly, Edith Rickert (1920)
"... the red haws, the red unripe blackberries, red bryony berries, reddish-yellow
fungi; yellow hawkweed, yellow ragwort, yellow hazel-leaves, elms, ..."
7. Nature Near London by Richard Jefferies (1883)
"With red hips and haws, red bryony and woodbine berries, these together cause
the sense rather than the actual existence of a tawny tint. ..."
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