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GENUS BRYONIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Climbing perennial herbs: bryony
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus Bryonia" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "genus Bryonia"):
briony; bryony (a vine of the genus Bryonia having large leaves and small flowers and yielding acrid juice with emetic and purgative properties)
Holonyms ("genus Bryonia" is a member of...):
Cucurbitaceae; family Cucurbitaceae; gourd family (a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin))