Black Bindweed (Noun)
Meaning
Common European twining vine with tuberous roots and cordate leaves and red berries.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- Black bindweed can grow vigorously and outcompete other vegetation in gardens and agricultural land.
- The seeds of black bindweed can remain viable in the soil for at least 20 years, which can make eradication difficult.
- Black bindweed produces small, greenish flowers in the summer that are followed by bright red berries that are toxic to mammals but attractive to birds.
- Farmers consider black bindweed a weed and try to remove it, but its twining habit and tuberous roots can make it hard to eradicate.
- Black bindweed gets its name from its climbing stems that can bind other vegetation together in a dense thicket.