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Convolvulus
noun
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Noun
- 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."
Etymology
From Latin convolvulus (“bindweed; caterpillar”), from convolvō (“convolve”).
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