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smilax
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of lilaceous plant, c.1600, from Latin, from Greek smilax "blindweed," also used of the yew and a kind of evergreen oak.
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any member of the ''Smilax'' genus of greenbriers.
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
Smilax is a genus of about 300–350 species , found in the tropics and subtropics worldwide. In China for example about 80 are found (39 of which are endemic ), while there are 20 in North America north of Mexico . They are climbing flowering plants , many ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Smilax \Smi"lax\, n. [L., bindweed, Gr. ???.] (Bot.) A genus of perennial climbing plants, usually with a prickly woody stem; green brier, or cat brier. The rootstocks of certain species are the source of the medicine called sarsaparilla. A delicate trailing ...
Usage examples of smilax.
Big old gnarled Banksia serrata leaned over bowing to the sea, and the underscrub was leptospermum and bracken fern with a tangle of hibbertia and smilax and hardenbergias.
Big old gnarled Banksia serrata leaned over bowing to the sea, and the underscrub was leptospermum and bracken fern with a tangle of hibbertia and smilax and hardenbergias.