Smilax aspera
n 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 India [syn:
{rough bindweed}, {Smilax aspera}]
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}.
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The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings.
--Tennyson.
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