smilax aspera
NounWordNet 3.0
Noun (1)
- creeping or climbing evergreen having spiny zigzag stems with shiny leaves and racemes of pale-green flowers; Canary Islands to southern Europe and Ethiopia and IndiaSynonyms: rough bindweedSmilax aspera
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Bindweed \Bind"weed`\, n. (Bot.) 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. [1913 Webster]
The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]