convolvulus
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convolvuluses,
plural
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convolvuli
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
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Etymology
Origin of convolvulus
1545–55; < New Latin, Latin: bindweed, equivalent to convolv ( ere ) to convolve + -ulus -ule
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The gaping mouth of the skeleton was filled with fertile loam and from this was already rising a curling shoot of convolvulus, bearing its delicate flowers.
From Time Magazine Archive
As a humped convolvulus rearing its dragon’s head from an icy lake.
From "Middlesex: A Novel" by Jeffrey Eugenides
Although hidden from us, we know there are plenty of roots of the wild convolvulus running under the ground there; so with the evil thoughts of our hearts.
They are as grasping as a convolvulus for the water.
From White Fire by John Oxenham
By the wayside the convolvulus was opening its big pink cups.
From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Mary Stuart Boyd
And I pinted up at a gigantick trumpet creeper and convolvuli, festooned along the boughs of a giant geranium and hanging down its banner of bloom.
From Around the World with Josiah Allen's Wife by Marietta Holley
I am in a charming light room, with three windows down to the ground, and a bewitching paper of pale green, with slender gold rods running up it, all wound round with various colored convolvuli.
From Records of Later Life by Fanny Kemble
They landed every evening to sleep, having to push their way between a wide belt of reeds, rushes, and convolvuli.
From Great African Travellers From Mungo Park to Livingstone and Stanley by William Henry Giles Kingston
Deep banks covered with fine grass, beautiful acacias, and festoons of lilac-colored convolvuli stretched, along on either side of the stream.
From The World and Its People: Book VII Views in Africa by Anna B. Badlam
It was a beautiful spot; in the deep green forest convolvuli and other flowering creepers had formed themselves into fantastic arches, more lovely than art could fabricate.
From Yankee Girls in Zulu Land by Louise Vescelius-Sheldon
“Let’s sit down and look at the garden,” said he, pointing to a huge log by the near wall—“and aren’t the convolvuluses beautiful?”
From The Ghost Girl by H. De Vere (Henry De Vere) Stacpoole
There was the oak and everything else; there even were still convolvuluses on the hedge.
From Mogens and Other Stories by Anna Grabow
He would have known little of the scarlet shafts of sunrise and nothing of the long convolvuluses.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Edmund David Jones
Many words ending in us that formerly were written with only the Latin plural, are now given an English plural also; as, focuses, foci; cactuses, cacti; sarcophaguses, sarcophagi; convolvuluses, convolvuli ; funguses, fungi; nucleuses, nuclei.
From Slips of Speech : a Helpful Book for Everyone Who Aspires to Correct the Everyday Errors of Speaking by John Hendricks Bechtel
The convolvuluses let their white crowns be filled to the brim, drank healths to each other, and emptied the water over the heads of the nettles.
From Mogens and Other Stories by Anna Grabow
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