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Flowering plant
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smilax
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Word definitions for smilax in dictionaries
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 ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Any member of the ''Smilax'' genus of greenbriers.
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.
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.