n. 1. Any of various climbing vines, especially a European honeysuckle (Lonicera periclymenum) having yellowish flowers. 2. See Virginia creeper. [Middle English wodebinde, from Old English wudubinde : wudu, wood + binde, wreath (from bindan, to bind; see bhendh- in the Appendix of Indo-European roots).] |
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