bindweed Bot.
(ˈbaɪndwiːd)
Also 6 bind(e)-weede, bynd-, 7 binde-, 9 bine-.
[f. bind v. + weed. (Perh. sometimes for bindwith.)]
1. The English name for the species of the family Convolvulus; as Greater Bindweed (C. sepium), Lesser Bindweed (C. arvensis), Seaside Bindweed (C. Soldanella).
| 1548 Turner Names of Herbes (1881) 30 Conuoluulus is called..in english wythwynde or byndeweede. 1562 ― Herbal ii. 128 Byndweed..is as it wer an vnperfyt worke of nature lerning to make lilies. 1616 Surfl. & Markh. Countr. Farm 531 Bind-weed, both great and small, do proceed partly of drinesse. 1783 Ainsworth Lat. Dict. (Morell) 1, Sea bells, sea bind weed, or withwand, Soldanella. 1814 Wordsw. Excurs. i. 761 The cumbrous bind-weed, with its wreaths and bells. |
| attrib. 1855 Tennyson Brook 203 The fragile bindweed-bells and briony rings. |
2. Applied dialectally or vaguely to various other climbing plants, as species of
Smilax,
Honeysuckle,
Tamus, etc. See also
binweed.
| 1601 Holland Pliny xvi. xxxv, Like unto Ivie is that plant which they call Smilax, or rough Bindweed. 1671 Salmon Syn. Med. iii. xxii. 432 Smilax..Bindweed; it opens the belly, disolves hard swellings. |
3. black,
corn, or
ivy bindweed,
Polygonum Convolvulus;
blue bindweed, Bittersweet or Woody Nightshade.
| 1617 B. Jonson Vis. Delight, The blue bindweed doth itself infold With honey-suckle. 1794 Martyn Rousseau's Bot. xix. 261 Black Bindweed..frequent weed among corn. |