convolvulus
Americannoun
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convolvuluses,
plural
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convolvuli
plural
noun
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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
But have they not their rivals in the climbing honeysuckle and in the bright-eyed creeping convolvulus?
From The Cruise of the Land-Yacht "Wanderer" Thirteen Hundred Miles in my Caravan by Stables, Gordon
A convolvulus had climbed to the sundial, wrapping it round and round, and had laid its bold white trumpet flowers on the leaded disk itself.
From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary
The Sweet Potatoe, convolvulus batatas, is the most common in Antigua.
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
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 Vescelius-Sheldon, Louise
Myrtles, too, mingled their foliage with wild limes, their branches twined with flowering parasites, as the climbing combretum, with its long flame-like clusters, convolvuli, with large white blossoms, and the beautiful twin-leaved bauhinia.
From The War Trail The Hunt of the Wild Horse by Reid, Mayne
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
It was difficult to advance: wood lilies and anemones grew almost too high; flowering convolvuli and brambles were hanging like garlands from tree to tree; while the nightingales were singing and the sunbeams played.
From Fairy Tales of Hans Christian Andersen by Andersen, H. C. (Hans Christian)
Down there broadleaved convolvuli and creepers had formed a natural bower above a projecting block of stone, in which even at high noon one could sit almost in the dark.
From The Wish A Novel by Sudermann, Hermann
Not a sound, save the great bee, as large as a beetle, going whooming, whooming, among the doricas and convolvuluses screening the verandah.
From Jasper Lyle by Ward, Harriet
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 Grabow, Anna
He would have known little of the scarlet shafts of sunrise and nothing of the long convolvuluses.
From English Critical Essays Nineteenth Century by Jones, Edmund David
There were creepers hanging from the upper branches, and the bells of the flowers of the creepers, great waxy white things like convolvuluses, hung down fast asleep.
From The Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard
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 Bechtel, John Hendricks
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