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countable and uncountable, plural bryonies
A perennial herb of the genus Bryonia, especially the common wild species Bryonia dioica. quotations examples
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, […], page 112