smilax
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• noun
Any of various woody, often prickly climbing vines of the genus Smilax (family Smilacaceae), native to tropical and temperate regions worldwide, bearing clusters of small greenish or yellowish-white flowers and round berries, with the roots of several species yielding sarsaparilla.
A delicate, twining southern African vine (Asparagus asparagoides) of the family Asparagaceae, widely cultivated by florists for its glossy, bright green, leaf-like cladodes and fragrant, small, greenish-white, star-shaped blossoms.
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed from Latin smilax, from Ancient Greek σμῖλαξ (smîlax), a name for bindweed and certain climbing plants, associated in Greek mythology with the nymph Smilax who was transformed into a bramble.
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