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# bryony

«bryony» in Mova's school dictionary: **a climbing plant found in hedges in Britain and Europe…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (bryony, uncountable; a bryony, bryonies); proper noun (Bryony — a girl's name)

### meaning for a pupil

1) Bryony is a climbing plant found in hedges in Britain and Europe; there are two kinds, white bryony and black bryony, both with shiny red berries in autumn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bryony/#m1)

2) Bryony is also a girl's name (a name). [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bryony/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

In nature and safety lessons bryony is important because all parts of it, especially the red berries and the roots, are poisonous; children should never eat wild berries without an adult who knows plants. It climbs by curly tendrils (white bryony) or by twisting stems (black bryony). Phrases: white bryony, black bryony.

### examples

- Bryony climbed all over the hedge by the lane. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bryony/#x1)
- The bright red berries of bryony are poisonous. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bryony/#x2)
- Never eat hedge berries like bryony. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bryony/#x3)
- White bryony holds on with curly tendrils. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bryony/#x4)
- In autumn the bryony berries hung like red beads. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bryony/#x5)
- Bryony is the name of the girl who sits next to me. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bryony/#x6)
- The teacher pointed out bryony on our nature walk and warned us not to touch it. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bryony/#x7)

### note

Pronounced BRY-uh-nee. The plant is usually small b; the name has a capital B. The two bryonies are not closely related, despite their names.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «bryony» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/bryony/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.