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From: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

 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.
    The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings.   --Tennyson.
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From: WordNet (r) 2.0

 Smilax aspera
      n : creeping or climbing evergreen having spiny zigzag stems
          with shiny leaves and racemes of pale-green flowers;
          Canary Islands to southern Europe and Ethiopia and India
          [syn: rough bindweed]