单词 | rough bindweed |
释义 | > as lemmasrough bindweed rough bindweed n. now rare any of various species of smilax (smilax n. 1) that have hooked stems. ΚΠ 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. cccii. 710 The common rough Bindweede hath many branches set full of little sharpe prickles, with certaine clasping tendrels. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xvi. xxxv. 481 Like unto Ivie is that plant which they call Smilax, or rough Bindweed. 1823 G. Crabb Universal Technol. Dict. Rough Bindweed,..the Smilax aspera of Linnæus. 1919 National Geographic Mag. Feb. 169/2 ‘Bamboo’, ‘bread-and-butter’, ‘rough bindweed’,..and ‘Devil's hopvine’ are some of its synonyms [sc. of Smilax rotundifolia]. < as lemmas |
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