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
Example Sentences
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In today’s network of instant information, curious if not questionable practices sweep through the gardening community faster than bindweed can choke a neglected berry patch.
From Seattle Times ● Jun. 24, 2023
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
From the viewpoint of the continent, our representatives must look like bindweed throttling everything else in the vicinity.
From The Guardian ● Apr. 6, 2010
The chief flowers here are only broom and bindweed, and I begin to weary for my heather and for my Susie; but oh dear, the ways are long and the days few.
From Hortus Inclusus Messages from the Wood to the Garden, Sent in Happy Days to the Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston by Ruskin, John
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