white bindweed

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white bindweed - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  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.
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           The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings.
                                                    --Tennyson.
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