Crossword clues for bindweed
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bindweed \Bind"weed`\, n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed ( Convolvulus Sepium); lesser bindweed ( Convolvulus arvensis); the white bindweed, the blue bindweed, the Syrian bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed.
The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings.
--Tennyson.
Wiktionary
n. 1 trailing vine-like plants in the family Convolvulaceae with funnel-shaped flowers. 2 # (vern: true bindweed), genus ''Convolvulus''. 3 # (vern: false bindweed), genus (taxlink Calystegia genus noshow=1). 4 # (vern: slender bindweed), (taxlink Polymeria calycina species noshow=1) 5 Plants of species in other families with similar appearance 6 # (vern: black bindweed), (taxlink Fallopia convolvulus species noshow=1) 7 # (vern: bittersweet nightshade), (vern: blue bindweed), ''Solanum dulcamara''
WordNet
n. any of several vines of the genera Convolvulus and Calystegia having a twining habit
Wikipedia
Bindweed may refer to:
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Convolvulaceae (bindweed family or morning glory family), a family including about 60 genera and more than 1,650 species
- Calystegia (bindweed, false bindweed, morning glory), a genus of about 25 species of flowering plants
- Convolvulus (bindweed, morning glory), a genus of about 250 species of flowering plants
- Dioscorea communis, black bindweed
- Fallopia convolvulus, black bindweed, a fast-growing annual flowering plant
- Polymeria calycina, slender bindweed, native to Australia
- Solanum dulcamara, blue bindweed
Usage examples of "bindweed".
Gentlelady Bindweed came striding down the walk to hang out the now serving sign on the wrought-iron gate.
The shop had a menu of teas and tisanes longer than the wine lists of some local restaurants, but no one had ever seen Bindweed drink any of them.
Gentlelady Bindweed considered her hand, then pulled out the three of trefoils and laid it down on the table.
Gentleladies Bindweed and Blossom had been observing the landing from the same seats as before.
Perhaps Bindweed and Blossom would know what the three humans had done, and why.
Behind him, Bindweed stood still, with the color draining from her face.
Gentlelady Bindweed sang softly under her breath, as she and her partner exited the Golden Lily Pleasantry Shop, each of them bearing several large, gift-wrapped boxes.
Then there came another sound, in a language that Bindweed knew very well indeed.
Then, in spite of themselves, Bindweed and Blossom were surging forward with the rest of the crowd toward the point of impact.
I think our friends Bindweed and Blossom had a few words with the boss-man after they got back from Khesat.
Herbalists talk about Jalap and Black Haw, but to the uninitiated Bindweed and Guelder Rose are far more familiar, and it is under these names that they will be found in this herbal.
I opened the gate and prepared to approach it, I found myself concentrating upon the pale bindweed, the dock and nettle, growing up among the broken stones of the path.
There were discarded cans and bottles around me, and it looked as if this entire area had become the dustbin of the neighbourhood: cardboard boxes, pieces of old newspaper, rusted metal, twisted plastic, had been left among the nettles and the pale bindweed as if they too might grow and flourish beneath the sky.
Some day I should like to paint a bouquet of wildflowers, the kind she liked: gypsy rose and yarrow, and little pink bindweed, with a few blades of fine grass and a green oat stalk.
So distinct are its large flesh-coloured flowers that they are often taken at the first glance, when cut, for double pyrethrums or chrysanthemums, but, seen in connection with the plant, the form of foliage and climbing or twining habit of the bindweed soon enable the most casual observer of flowers to recognise its genus.