Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of various mostly trailing or twining plants of the widespread genus Convolvulus, having funnel-shaped flowers and including several weeds and a few grown as ornamentals.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun [NL.] One of the principal genera of the natural order Convolvulaceæ, of about 150 species, natives of temperate and subtropical regions, and especially abundant in the eastern Mediterranean region.
- noun [l. c] A plant of the genus Convolvulus.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (
Convolvulus arvensis ), and formerly the morning-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus Ipomæa.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun botany Any of several
plants , of the genusConvolvulus , found in temperate climates, having small trumpet-shapedflowers .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of numerous plants of the genus Convolvulus
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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When the creature I now watched hovered before the blossom of a convolvulus whose calyx it tapped with a tongue shaped like a glass probe, it was almost invisible.
Commonplace 2010
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When the creature I now watched hovered before the blossom of a convolvulus whose calyx it tapped with a tongue shaped like a glass probe, it was almost invisible.
A Different Stripe 2010
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When the creature I now watched hovered before the blossom of a convolvulus whose calyx it tapped with a tongue shaped like a glass probe, it was almost invisible.
A Different Stripe: 2010
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When the creature I now watched hovered before the blossom of a convolvulus whose calyx it tapped with a tongue shaped like a glass probe, it was almost invisible.
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When her petrified brain did make the connection, she realized that they would be hanging on a rusty nail in the shed located at the bottom of the overgrown garden, its door probably jammed shut by inches of high grass and an invasion of convolvulus, its musty interior inhabited by various large and unchecked spiders.
The Home for Broken Hearts Rowan Coleman 2010
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A magnificent convolvulus hawk moth was spotted by the Suffolk lepidopterists gliding in downriver along their bank.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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A magnificent convolvulus hawk moth was spotted by the Suffolk lepidopterists gliding in downriver along their bank.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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In the cemetery of Pere – Lachaise, in the vicinity of the common grave, far from the elegant quarter of that city of sepulchres, far from all the tombs of fancy which display in the presence of eternity all the hideous fashions of death, in a deserted corner, beside an old wall, beneath a great yew tree over which climbs the wild convolvulus, amid dandelions and mosses, there lies a stone.
Les Miserables 2008
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Others fondled in their arms gazelles or savage whelps of wolves, and suckled them-young mothers these with babes at home, whose breasts were still full of milk; crowns they wore of ivy or of oak or blossoming convolvulus.
The Bacchantes 2008
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O Thebes, nurse of Semele! crown thyself with ivy; burst forth, burst forth with blossoms fair of green convolvulus, and with the boughs of oak and pine join in the Bacchic revelry; dor; - thy coat of dappled fawn-skin, decking it with tufts of silvered hair; with reverent hand the sportive wand now wield.
The Bacchantes 2008
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