Convolvulus
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Any of several plants, of the genus Convolvulus, found in temperate climates, having small trumpet-shaped flowers.
"Toward it the torrent raced furiously, fed from above, where, down the left bank, transformed abruptly into a great wall of vegetation, water was spouting into the stream through thickets festooned with convolvuli on a higher level than the topmost trees of the jungle."
- 2 any of numerous plants of the genus Convolvulus wordnet
- 3 A species of hawkmoth, Agrius convolvuli.
"1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 51, Already the convolvulus moth was spinning over the flowers."
Example
More examples"Toward it the torrent raced furiously, fed from above, where, down the left bank, transformed abruptly into a great wall of vegetation, water was spouting into the stream through thickets festooned with convolvuli on a higher level than the topmost trees of the jungle."
Etymology
From Latin convolvulus (“bindweed; caterpillar”), from convolvō (“convolve”).
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