Definition of Smilax aspera

1. Noun. Creeping or climbing evergreen having spiny zigzag stems with shiny leaves and racemes of pale-green flowers; Canary Islands to southern Europe and Ethiopia and India.

Exact synonyms: Rough Bindweed
Generic synonyms: Sarsaparilla

Lexicographical Neighbors of Smilax Aspera

Sm
Smale's paradox
Small Business Administration
Small Computer Systems Interface
Small Magellanic Cloud
Small Scale Integration
Smalley
Smalltalk
SmartStamp
SmartStamps
Smartism
Smell-O-Vision
Smetana
Smiggy
Smilacaceae
Smilax aspera (current term)
Smilax rotundifolia
Smiledon
Smiledon californicus
Smitane
Smith
Smith's fracture
Smith's operation
Smith-Boyce operation
Smith-Indian operation
Smith-Petersen nail
Smith-Riley syndrome
Smith-Robinson operation
Smithereen
Smithereens

Literary usage of Smilax aspera

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Pharmaceutical Journal by Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1844)
"The smilax aspera is a tough, cylindrical root, having very little taste or smell, and covered with a thin, smooth, brown bark, which also is insipid. ..."

2. A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins by Johann Beckmann (1846)
"... perhaps has been chiefly considered as the hop is the Smilax aspera* of ... system has retained the name Smilax aspera. What the Grecian writer says of ..."

3. A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins by Johann Beckmann (1846)
"The plant which perhaps has been chiefly considered as the hop is the Smilax aspera* of Dioscorides*, the same no doubt as that described by Theophrastus ..."

4. Publications by English Dialect Society (1881)
"Smilax aspera. Smilax aspera groweth not in Englade that euer I coulde see, I haue sene it in Germany where it is called grosse Stechend wynde, ..."

5. Botanical Gazette by University of Chicago, JSTOR (Organization) (1903)
"... 6, 10, and the addition of the following species: Pinus halepensis Mill.; Smilax aspera L.; Quercus Cerris L.; Q. Aegilops L.; Thymelaea hirsuta Endl.; ..."

6. The Names of Herbes by William Turner, James Britten (1881)
"Smilax aspera. Smilax aspera groweth not in Englade that euer I coulde see, I haue sene it in Germany where it is called ..."

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