smilax : Idioms & Phrases

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genus smilax

  • noun sometimes placed in Smilacaceae
    Smilax.
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smilax aspera

  • 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
    rough bindweed.
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smilax rotundifolia

  • noun a very prickly woody vine of the eastern United States growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries
    catbrier; horse brier; greenbrier; briar; bullbrier; brier; horse-brier.
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