Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of various trailing or twining, often weedy plants of the genera Calystegia and Convolvulus, having white, pink, or purple bell-shaped or funnel-shaped flowers.
- n. Any of various similar trailing or twining plants, such as the black bindweed.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The common name for plants of the genus Convolvulus, especially of C. arvensis, C. (or Calystegia) sepium, and C. (or Calystegia) Soldanella.
- n. Tamus communis of Europe.
Wiktionary
- n. botany Any of several trailing vine-like plants, of the related genera Calystegia and Convolvulus, that have funnel-shaped flowers.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Convolvulus. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed.
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of several vines of the genera Convolvulus and Calystegia having a twining habit
Etymologies
- From bind + weed. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“In addition, in St Mary's Gardens there are a couple of outbreaks of field bindweed, which is starting to strangle other plants.”
“VascuStatin Formula is a water extraction of the leaves of the herb Convolvulus arvensis, commonly known as bindweed, and is rich in proteoglycan mixture (PGM).”
“The white flower and heart-shaped leaves among the grapes are "bindweed" (le liseron).”
“The white flower and heart-shaped leaves among the grapes are "bindweed" le liseron.”
“The hawthorn and aggressive plants such as bindweed and ivy are also on the increase.”
“Today I noticed the pale beauty of the bindweed flowers, the presence of a clear stream nearby, and the tranquillity of this spot.”
“I hadn't seen him duck the bindweed wreathing the entrance, or noticed the little light there was lessen as he moved beside me, but he had.”
“Maybe also the time that we feel a sneaking admiration for, say, the bindweed, an exquisite white-flowered morning glory, and its tenacious powers of survival.”
“A list of the top 18 of "the world's most serious weeds," compiled in 1977, has just three European plants—fat-hen, field bindweed and wild oats.”
“Call those of us who rampage through a plate of food like bindweed through a suburban garden greedy if you wish, but if fast eating leads to lust and then sloth, well, that sounds like a bloody good night out to me.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘bindweed’.
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FUN - fish can be...
Compound adjectives - based on the FAO ASFIS list of waterborne species.
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Flora
Flowers and plants have some of the most beautiful names.
These are often the common names, as opposed to the scientific or botanical names.daffodil, gardenia, tulip, snapdragon, violet, orchid, bleeding heart, daisy, lily, lilac, narcissus, rose and 278 more...
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Ptolemy's Gate
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's book, Ptolemy's Gate.
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The Amulet of Samarkand
Words and phrases from Jonathan Stroud's The Amulet of Samarkand.
flunky, provenance, pare, rabbit in a covert, short shrift, bunker, trainers, tatty, lob, injunction, doss, bluster and 193 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (B)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
balcony, bailey, baguette, bairn, balalaika, baldric, balefire, baby's breath, ballet, balm of gilead, balsam, baluster and 188 more...
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Speak, Memory
Words gathered while reading Speak, Memory by Vladimir Nabokov.
cracknel, shingly, glaucous, stretcherman, goodish, loden, gutticle, percha, plasticine, instar, wellhole, camera-lucida and 357 more...
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Blue remembered hills
Flora, fauna and other things common in the time and place where I grew up
millipede, dock leaf, snowdrop, nettle, ragwort, oxeye, moss, bindweed, lichen, hay, forget-me-not, bluebell and 62 more...
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bafflegab, bagatelle, bacillus, batrachian, bibliolatry, bindweed, bonhomie, boule, bruit, bucolic, brachylogy, brachymetropia and 12 more...
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