Smilax - Law Dictionary Search Results
Home Dictionary Name: smilaxBull brier
A species of Smilax Smilax Pseudo China growing from New Jersey to the Gulf of Mexico which has very large tuberous and farinaceous rootstocks formerly used by the Indians for a sort of bread and by the negroes as an ingredient in making beer called also bamboo brier and China brier...
Pseudo china
The false china root a plant of the genus Smilax Smilax Pseudo china found in America...
Bindweed
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...
Brier
A plant with a slender woody stem bearing stout prickles especially species of Rosa Rubus and Smilax...
catbrier
a very prickly woody vine of eastern US Smilax rotundifolia growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries...
Cladophyll
A special branch resembling a leaf as in the apparent foliage of the broom Ruscus and of the common cultivated smilax Myrsiphillum...
horsebrier
a very prickly woody vine Smilax rotundifolia of eastern U S growing in tangled masses having tough round stems with shiny leathery leaves and small greenish flowers followed by clusters of inedible shiny black berries...
Parillin
A glucoside resembling saponin found in the root of sarsaparilla smilax etc and extracted as a bitter white crystalline substance called also smilacin sarsaparilla saponin and sarsaparillin...
Sarsaparilla
Any plant of several tropical American species of Smilax...
Smilax
A genus of perennial climbing plants usually with a prickly woody stem green brier or cat brier The rootstocks of certain species are the source of the medicine called sarsaparilla...
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