convolvulus

American  

[kuhn-vol-vyuh-luhs] / kənˈvɒl vyə 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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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 fly-wheel whirled about, beating the air to musical resonance; the steel sinew of Behemoth stretched across the stubble, dragging the shares remorselessly through tender roots of pimpernel and creeping convolvulus.

From Greene Ferne Farm by Jefferies, Richard

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

Lovely flowering climbers were planted, quick growing ones, wild convolvulus and clematis, with a few roses, and before the summer was half done all the walls were covered with a wealth of floral beauty.

From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Stables, Gordon