DEVIL'S TURNIP

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

White-flowered vine having thick roots and bearing small black berries; Europe to Iran

Synonyms:

Bryonia alba; devil's turnip; white bryony

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("devil's turnip" is a kind of...):

briony; bryony (a vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties)

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