convolvulus
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convolvuluses,
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convolvuli
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noun
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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
Now and again a tiny bright-coloured bird would flash across the path, now and again a huge trail of giant convolvulus, blue as the sky, would bar our progress.
From Stevenson's Shrine The Record of a Pilgrimage by Laura Stubbs
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
Bear′-ber′ry, a trailing plant of the heath family, a species of the Arbutus; Bear′bine, a species of convolvulus, closely allied to the bindweed; Bear′-gar′den, an enclosure where bears are kept; a rude, turbulent assembly.—adj.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
But in his catalogue of achievements I find new lilies, new conifers, fuchsias, agaves, cacti, begonias, saxifrage, dahlias, convolvuli, tropaeolums, tacsonias—a multitude, in fact, beyond reckoning.
From The Woodlands Orchids by Frederick Boyle
The roughly erected fences were, so to speak, smothered with glorious trumpet-blossomed convolvuli, whose bright hues were peering ever from a bed of heart and spear shaped richly green leaves.
From The Golden Magnet by George Manville Fenn
Orchids and lovely lichens clung to the boughs, while huge masses of buff, violet, pink and brilliant yellow convolvuli hung suspended in festoons, brightening the gloom which pervaded this underworld of the jungle.
From With Wolseley to Kumasi A Tale of the First Ashanti War by F. S. (Frederick Sadleir) Brereton
These wild convolvuli grow with such amazing rapidity, that in a month of rainy weather the whole path is blocked.
From Banked Fires by E. W. (Ethel Winifred) Savi
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 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
The convolvuluses, the ferns, and the parasites, all entangled together, compelled us to use our knives.
From Adventures of a Young Naturalist by Parker Gillmore
He told her about the convolvuluses, and she said he ought to write a book.
From Balloons by Elizabeth Bibesco
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
A tree-trunk surrounded by red and white roses, poppies, convolvuluses, etc., and upon the stony ground, covered with moss and mushrooms, innumerable lizards, toads, snails, and various insects swarm.
From The Standard Galleries - Holland by Esther Singleton
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