convolvulus

American  

[kuhn-vol-vyuh-luhs] / kənˈvɒl vyə ləs /

noun

plural

convolvuluses, convolvuli

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

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

By the wayside the convolvulus was opening its big pink cups.

From The Fortunate Isles Life and Travel in Majorca, Minorca and Iviza by Boyd, Mary Stuart

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.]