convolvulus
Americannoun
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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
She whirled round on one foot, and her gown seemed like a big convolvulus; and after this revolution she stopped in front of me, laughing and clapping her hands.
From Roumanian Stories Translated from the Original Roumanian by Various
In the season the large white bell-like flowers of the convolvulus will climb over the hawthorn, and the lesser striped kind will creep along the ground.
From Wild Life in a Southern County by Richard Jefferies
The dogwood berries stood jauntily scarlet on the hedge-tops, the bunched scarlet and green berries of the convolvulus and bryony hung amid golden trails, the blackberries dropped ungathered.
From The White Peacock by D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
The golden curls, the elfish laugh, Rose cheeks and glittering eye Are glories, too, like bells of blue And red convolvuli.
From The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems by Cotton Noe
Some grew into golden painted silken flowers, the convolvuli of their brief summer days; and some drifted into the Seine water, rusted, wind-tossed, fallen leaves, that were wanted of no man.
From Bebee by Ouida
And so the delighted travellers went on, over the ground, through203 the thick-tangled weeds and convolvuli, making new discoveries at every step.
From Popular Adventure Tales by Mayne Reid
The wild jasmine and convolvuli, which reach from tree to tree, form bowers and walks of exquisite beauty.
From The History of Tasmania, Volume I by John West
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
The second picture represents, on a marble plinth in a niche, a melon, a pear, and a bunch of black grapes with roses, convolvuluses, poppies, and other flowers.
From The Standard Galleries - Holland by Esther Singleton
“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
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
Travellers are especially struck with the beauty of some of the wild flowers, more especially with the lilies and convolvuluses; and European greenhouses have been enriched by several Formosan orchids and other ornamental plants.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
The pillars look extremely pretty, wreathed with the luxuriant hop-vine, mixed with the scarlet creeper and "morning glory," the American name for the most splendid of major convolvuluses.
From The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America by Catharine Parr Strickland Traill
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