Definitions for brionies

brionies bri·o·ny

Spelling: [brahy-uh-nee]
IPA: /ˈbraɪ ə ni/

Brionies is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 258 anagrams from letters in brionies (beiinors).

Definitions for brionies

noun

  1. bryony.
  2. any Old World vine or climbing plant belonging to the genus Bryonia, of the gourd family, yielding acrid juice having emetic and purgative properties.

Origin of brionies

before 1000; Middle English brionie, Old English bryōnia Latin Greek: a wild vine

Examples for brionies

The claspers of briony shoot into a spiral, and lay hold of whatever comes in their way for support.

In its perfect state, it feeds on the blossom of the briony.

The claspers of briony shoot into the spiral, and lay hold of whatever comes in their way, for support.

When romancing the dewy briony, the cosmopolitan New Yorker Andrew sounds like the creepy European Humbert Humbert.

She came towards him down the yellow glade through the sunshine and the shadow, with a spray of briony in her hand.

The briony, which bears in its root a mark significative of a dropsical mans feet, was adopted as a cure for dropsy.

It was the bit of briony which I had carried unwittingly a long, long way, through all my first shock of trouble.

To-day there was neither gravedigger nor robin—only the soft drip, drip of the rain on dock and thistle, fern and briony.

The girl sat before him swathed in a darkness, with the edges of the briony leaves shining deadly—radiant above—young Hecate!

The door of briony Lodge was open, and an elderly woman stood upon the steps.

Word Value for brionies
Scrable

11

Words with friends

12

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