(n) weakly climbing European perennial with white or pink flowers; naturalized in North America and an invasive weed, Syn. Convolvulus arvensis, wild morning-glory
(n) 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. Smilax aspera
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 ]
[つる, tsuru] (n) (uk) shoots which grow in a helix around a support and climb with tendrils or suckers as opposed to vines; esp. hops, bindweed, runner bean, French bean and honeysuckles