Convolvulus

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 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. 2
    any of numerous plants of the genus Convolvulus wordnet
  3. 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."

Etymology

From Latin convolvulus (“bindweed; caterpillar”), from convolvō (“convolve”).

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