rough bindweed

1. 1.

   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

   SynonymsSmilax aspera

   Broadersarsaparilla

Questions about rough bindweed

What does rough bindweed mean?

rough bindweed means "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".

What is another word for rough bindweed?

Close synonyms include Smilax aspera. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is rough bindweed a common word?

rough bindweed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.