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Garden 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
Sarsaparilla \Sar`sa*pa*ril"la\, n. [Sp. zarzaparrilla; zarza a bramble (perhaps fr. Bisc. zartzia) + parra a vine, or Parillo, a physician said to have discovered it.] (Bot.) Any plant of several tropical American species of Smilax . The bitter mucilaginous ...
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.
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.