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bearbine, -bind|ˈbɛəbaɪn|
[f. OE. bęre bear n.2 + bindan to bind, from winding round and binding the stalks. In an 11th century list of plants, berwinde is the gloss for umbilicum. Cf. also OE. wuduwinde, wudubind. woodbine.]
A popular name applied to two English species of convolvulus, the Lesser Field Convolvulus, and the large white convolvulus of the hedges; also to a species of Polygonum (P. Convolvulus), to which it is most appropriate.
[c1000in Wülcker Voc. 300 Umbilicum, berwinde.] 1732De Foe, etc. Tour Gt. Brit. (1748) III. 242 (D.) Small and soft, not unlike the Roots of Asparagus or of Bearbind. 1755Croker Orl. Fur. xxv. lxix, Entwining bearbind dont more knots unite. 1830Hood Haunted House i. xxiv, The bearbine with the lilac interlaced. |