bindweed
Americannoun
noun
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any convolvulaceous plant of the genera Convolvulus and Calystegia that twines around a support See also convolvulus
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any of various other trailing or twining plants, such as black bindweed
Etymology
Origin of bindweed
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He said Citizen Zoo have many other plants on their radar, including copse bindweed, a native British climbing plant.
From BBC ● Oct. 19, 2026
Although most gardeners have a complicated relationship with morning glory, this singular annual is a treasure and will not colonize the garden like nasty bindweed.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 2, 2022
Within weeks, the paths would have been entangled with bramble and honeysuckle, the herb garden strangled with bindweed.
From The New Yorker ● Aug. 2, 2019
Much of that paper money has come from his chain, Jamie's Italian, which is sprouting across British high streets like bindweed in a damp summer.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 5, 2012
We are standing, for instance, on a broken foreground, across which the brier, the dog-rose, and the white bindweed have clasped themselves in fantastic tendrils.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 58, No. 359, September 1845 by Various
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