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
In geranium the cotyledons are twisted and doubled; in convolvulus they are corrugated; and in the potato and in Bunias, they are spiral,—the same terms being applied as to the foliage leaves.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 11, Slice 3 "Frost" to "Fyzabad" by Various
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 Richard Jefferies
They are as grasping as a convolvulus for the water.
From White Fire by John Oxenham
The dense and nearly impenetrable forest itself occupied our chief attention; magnificent trees, altogether new to us, were anchored to the ground by bush-rope, convolvuli, and parasitical plants of every variety.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 20, No. 578, December 1, 1832 by Various
Grey daylight came streaming between the leaves, the purple convolvuli opened their flowers, and the parrots and wild pigeons began to awake among the branches.
From The Ruined Cities of Zululand by Hugh Mulleneux Walmsley
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
It was more than a quarter of an hour when I climbed over the stile again, laden with scarlet poppies and pale-coloured convolvuli.
From Uncle Max by Rosa Nouchette Carey
And so the delighted travellers went on, over the ground, through the thick-tangled weeds and convolvuli, making new discoveries at every step.
From The Forest Exiles The Perils of a Peruvian Family in the Wilds of the Amazon by Harrison Weir
The garden, too, was well planted, and all along the wire fence, entirely covering it, were wild convolvuluses.
From Harry Milvaine The Wanderings of a Wayward Boy by Gordon Stables
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 John Hendricks Bechtel
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
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 Rudyard Kipling
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