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Bindweed

noun

Any of several vines of the genera Convolvulus and Calystegia having a twining habit.

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"Bindweed" Quotes from Famous Books

... well, too, I say. Lets you out o' payin' taxes. The Ericsons do own most of the county now. I remember the old preacher's fav'rite text used to be, 'To them that hath shall be given.' They've spread something wonderful—run over this here country like bindweed. But I ain't one that begretches it to 'em. Folks is entitled to what they kin git; and they're hustlers. Olaf, he's in the Legislature now, and a likely man fur Congress. Listen, if that ain't the old woman comin' now. Want I ...

— A Collection of Stories, Reviews and Essays • Willa Cather

... long hedge, and rolling in his mind Old waifs of rhyme, and bowing o'er the brook A tonsured head in middle age forlorn, 200 Mused and was mute. On a sudden a low breath Offender air made tremble in the hedge The fragile bindweed-bells and briony rings; And he look'd up. There stood a maiden near, Waiting to pass. In much amaze he stared 205 On eyes a bashful azure, and on hair In gloss and hue the chestnut, when the shell Divides threefold to show the fruit within: Then, wondering, ...

— Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson • William Wordsworth and Alfred Lord Tennyson

Words linked to "Bindweed" : Convolvulus arvensis, Calystegia sepium, Convolvulus sepium, vine, field bindweed, rough bindweed, morning-glory family, black bindweed, family Convolvulaceae, wild morning-glory, Convolvulaceae