noun
- a climbing or trailing plant with heart-shaped leaves and trumpet-shaped flowers, often considered a weed in gardens and fields
Usage: commonly refers to plants of the genus Convolvulus or Calystegia; often used in the singular or plural
Examples
- The bindweed had wrapped itself around the fence posts in the garden.
- Farmers struggle to control bindweed because it spreads rapidly through the soil.
- Pink and white bindweed flowers bloomed along the roadside.
- She spent the afternoon pulling bindweed from her vegetable patch.
- Bindweed is difficult to eradicate once it becomes established in a garden.
- The bindweed climbed up the trellis, choking out the other plants.