词汇 | bindweed |
释义 | bindweed noun[ U ] uk /ˈbaɪnd.wiːd/ us /ˈbaɪnd.wiːd/ a wild plant with white and pink flowers that twists itself around other plants as it grows旋花类植物 P. Bonduel/Photolibrary/GettyImages Climbing plants Boston ivy bougainvillea clematis climber creeper fox grape grapevine honeysuckle hoya ivied old man's beard passion flower philodendron plumbago poison ivy sweet pea traveller's joy trumpet vine twining vine Attracted by the freshness of the spot, I approached and in the midst of a confusion of iris, mint and bindweed, I saw a blonde head quenching its thirst at the stream. Near by, too, is a hedge covered with great white blooms of the bindweed. Tall rank grass flourished on every side, carriage-way and borders alike had been blotted into a springing waste, and the few sprawling shrubs which we could recognize hardly emerged from beneath the choking smother of luxuriant bindweed. The bindweed has a creeping root, wild garlic has a bulb, and such forms are always producing new forms underground while the seed above the ground is able to do the same thing. Examples of bindweedbindweed The driving-licence prose has several sub-sentences within it, but these are intertwined like bindweed and brambles. The "bureaucratic bindweed," however, did go along with institutionalization of the civil service, making for gradual institutional consolidation. Controlling field bindweed while growing adapted crops. There was a railway line snaking over empty fields on which reposed abandoned railway trucks through which the bindweed grew profusely. From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Why are we not all in favour of a piece of legislation, however hopelessly drafted, which seeks in one wrap-up organisation to throw back the creeping paralysis of bindweed bureauism? From the Hansard archive Example from the Hansard archive. Contains Parliamentary information licensed under the Open Parliament Licence v3.0 Common names include bindweed and morning glory, both names shared with other closely related genera. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Its common names include four-spotted moth and field bindweed moth. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. Smilax is believed to have been given a similar fate and transformed into bindweed. From Wikipedia This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license. These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. |
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