convolvulus

American  

[kuhn-vol-vyuh-luhs] / kənˈvɒl vjə ləs /

noun

convolvuluses, plural convolvuli plural

1. any plant belonging to the genus Convolvulus, of the morning glory family, comprising twining or prostrate plants having trumpet-shaped flowers.

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convolvulus British  

/ kənˈvɒlvjʊləs /

noun

1. any typically twining herbaceous convolvulaceous plant of the genus Convolvulus, having funnel-shaped flowers and triangular leaves See also bindweed

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• convolvuli
  plural
• convolvuluses
  plural

Etymology

Origin of convolvulus

1545–55; < New Latin, Latin: bindweed, equivalent to convolv ( ere ) to convolve + -ulus -ule

Example Sentences

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

The Noyeau-vine, convolvulus dissectus, belongs to the order monogynia, class pentandria; the flower is campiform, but expands beneath the influence of the light into the figure of a star.

From Antigua and the Antiguans, Volume II (of 2) A full account of the colony and its inhabitants from the time of the Caribs to the present day by Anonymous

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 Jefferies, Richard