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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. weakly climbing European perennial with white or pink flowers; naturalized in North America and an invasive weed;
[syn: field bindweed, wild morning-glory, Convolvulus arvensis]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Withwind \With"wind`\, n. [AS. wi[eth]owinde.] (Bot.) A kind of bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis). [1913 Webster] He bare a burden ybound with a broad list, In a withewyndes wise ybounden about. --Piers Plowman. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Convolvulus \Con*vol"vu*lus\ (k[o^]n*v[o^]l"v[-u]*l[u^]s), n.; pl. L.Convolvuli, E. Convoluluses. [L., bindweed, fr. convolvere to roll around. So named from its twining stems.] (Bot.) A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), and formerly the morning-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus Ipom[ae]a. [1913 Webster] The luster of the long convolvuluses That coiled around the stately stems. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

cornbind \corn"bind`\ (k[^o]rn"b[imac]nd`), n. (Bot.) A weed that binds stalks of corn, as Convolvulus arvensis, Polygonum Convolvulus. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bearbind \Bear"bind`\, n. (Bot.) The bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis). [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Bindweed \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. [1913 Webster] The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Convolvulus arvensis n 1: weakly climbing European perennial with white or pink flowers; naturalized in North America and an invasive weed [syn: field bindweed, wild morning-glory, Convolvulus arvensis]