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Bindweed

noun

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

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... 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. ...

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

... plastic contents, contracts, and diminishes in size. The pseudospores of AEcidium crassum, P., emit three long filaments, which describe spirals, imitating the twistings of the stem of a bean or bindweed. In AEcidium Violae, Schum, one filament is produced, which frequently rolls up its anterior extremity into a spire, but more often this same extremity rises in a large ovoid, irregular vesicle, which continues the axis of ...

— Fungi: Their Nature and Uses • Mordecai Cubitt Cooke

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