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Bindweed

noun

Any of several vines of the genera Convolvulus and Calystegia having a twining habit.

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"Bindweed" Quotes from Famous Books

... now, when waking from a moment's nodding in the welcome shade, she wondered why her old back seemed well-nigh broken, and marvelled to find herself holding a big posy of dandelions, groundsel, plantain, and bindweed. ...

— The White Ladies of Worcester - A Romance of the Twelfth Century • Florence L. Barclay

... know rose from thistle or bindweed? Man, Speak as our north wind speaks, if harsh and hard ...

— Rosamund, Queen of the Lombards • Algernon Charles Swinburne

... to the ditch; and forget-me-nots were growing there, and meadow-sweet; and a very little way off was a hedge of whitethorn, and elder bushes grew there, too, and bindweed with white flowers. Gay colors were to be seen here, and a butterfly, too, was flitting by. The Toad thought it was a flower which had broken loose that it might look about better in the world, which was quite a ...

— Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen • Hans Christian Andersen

... was a very wilderness. Tall rank grass flourished on every side, carriage-way and borders alike had been blotted into a springing waste, and the few sprawling shrubs which we could recognize hardly emerged from beneath the choking smother of luxuriant bindweed. ...

— Berry And Co. • Dornford Yates

Words linked to "Bindweed" : wild morning-glory, Convolvulus arvensis, Convolvulaceae, Convolvulus sepium, family Convolvulaceae, Calystegia sepium, vine, morning-glory family