Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A Scotch name for ivy, from its entwining or binding itself around stronger plants, etc.
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Examples
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Sit you down now under the green bindwood and pay attention, when Phantaesus comes I will find an opportunity to lay hold of his wing and to pull out one of the little feathers.
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The woods produce a plant called _quilineja_, much resembling the _esparto_ or broom of Spain, from which they manufacture their cables; and they make smaller ropes from several leafless parasitical plants which twine round the larger trees like vines or bindwood.
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The _vanilla_ grows on a small vine, or bindwood shrub, which winds about the stems of trees, producing
hernesheir commented on the word bindwood
ivy
December 6, 2010