Noun: bryony
| Singular | bryony |
| Plural | bryonies |
Sample Sentences
-
On a sudden a low breath / Of tender air made tremble in the hedge / The fragil bindweed-bells and briony rings; […] [1855, Alfred Tennyson, “The Brook; an Idyl”, in Maud, and Other Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, page 112:]
-
I cycled the three miles each morning between hedges draped with spangled cobwebs and berried bryony. [1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 216:]
Nouns inflected like bryony
clitoridectomy,
royal jelly,
whoopsy,
surrogacy,
urinary,
rastrography,
renoscopy,
sourtop blueberry,
forcible entry,
superficiary,
lipidosity,
potability,
phonography,
hyperproperty,
greenery,
conjugality,
ring singularity,
Brittany,
ignobility,
obscurity, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Middle English brionie, from Latin bryōnia (“bryony”), from Ancient Greek βρυωνία (bruōnía, “bryony”), from βρύω (brúō). See: Middle English Nouns '
brionie', Latin Nouns '
bryōnia'.