smilax aspera

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

   Synonymsrough bindweed

   Broadersarsaparilla

Questions about smilax aspera

What does smilax aspera mean?

smilax aspera 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 smilax aspera?

Close synonyms include rough bindweed. 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 smilax aspera a common word?

smilax aspera 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.