convolvulus
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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
The outside of our bungalow is covered with purple convolvulus, and the verandah goes practically all round it.
From A Crooked Mile by Onions, Oliver [pseud.]
When you were vexed with me the other day for tiring myself by tearing the convolvulus off that little orange tree, it was because I could not bear to see it choked.
From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary
The others include prickly convolvulus, field wormwood, acacia, Inula ammophila, Sophora flavescens, Convolvulus Ammani, Peganum and Astragalus, but all dwarfed, deformed and starved.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 12, Slice 2 "Gloss" to "Gordon, Charles George" by Various
A roguish laugh, a rustling vine, I turn my eager eye; Big drops of dew in bells of blue And red convolvuli.
From The Blood of Rachel A Dramatization of Esther, and other poems by Noe, Cotton
Here, as in the jungle, pretty blue convolvuli twisted up dead reeds nearly to our level, and peeped up at the sun.
From From Edinburgh to India & Burmah by Burn Murdoch, W. G. (William Gordon)
The grasses and wild flowers bordering the pathway were strange to me;—nevertheless, the palings were covered with convolvuli like our own, and I recognized in the gardens, china asters, zinnias, and other familiar flowers.
From Madame Chrysantheme by Loti, Pierre
Round the surfaces of these stems the green leaves and purple flowers of convolvuli clung.
From A Visit to Java With an Account of the Founding of Singapore by Worsfold, W. Basil (William Basil)
Creeping convolvuli and others have made use of the slender lianas and hanging air-roots as ladders to climb by.
From Oregon and Eldorado or, Romance of the Rivers by Bulfinch, Thomas
They paused awhile under some trellis work covered with a profusion of Japanese convolvuluses, pale blue, slate colour, rose-tinted, purple, deep red, with white and coloured bands, a marvellous display of fragile beauty.
From South Wind by Douglas, Norman
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
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 Stables, Gordon
The pillars look extremely pretty, wreathed with the luxuriant hop-vine, mixed with the scarlet creeper and "morning glory," the American name for the most splendid of major convolvuluses.
From The Backwoods of Canada Being Letters From The Wife of an Emigrant Officer, Illustrative of the Domestic Economy of British America by Traill, Catharine Parr Strickland
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 Singleton, Esther
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