BRIONY

bryony, briony

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

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Noun

briony (countable and uncountable, plural brionies)

Alternative form of bryony

Source: Wiktionary


Bri"o*ny, n.

Definition: See Bryony. Tennyson.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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Coffee Trivia

The average annual yield from one coffee tree is the equivalent of 1 to 1 1/2 pounds of roasted coffee. It takes about 4,000 hand-picked green coffee beans to make a pound of coffee.

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