'Smilax aspera' definitions:
Definition of 'Smilax aspera'
(from WordNet)
noun
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 [syn: rough bindweed, Smilax aspera]
Definition of 'Smilax aspera'
From: GCIDE
- Bindweed \Bind"weed`\, n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (Convolvulus Sepium); lesser bindweed ({Convolvulus arvensis}); the white bindweed, the blue bindweed, the Syrian bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed. [1913 Webster]
- The fragile bindweed bells and bryony rings. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]