·noun A plant of the genus Convolvulus; as, greater bindweed (C. Sepium); lesser bindweed (C. arvensis); the white, the blue, the Syrian, bindweed. The black bryony, or Tamus, is called black bindweed, and the Smilax aspera, rough bindweed.
The popular name in Massachusetts for the convolvulus.--Bigelow's Flora. ...
Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.