bindweed
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Noun (1)
- any of several vines of the genera Convolvulus and Calystegia having a twining habitType of vineKinds field bindweed, hedge bindweedMember of Convolvulaceae, family Convolvulaceae
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Bind′weed′ (…), noun
Botany A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (Convolvulus Sepium); lesser bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis); the white bindweed, the blue bindweed, the Syrian bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed.
The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings.— Alfred Tennyson
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54