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convolvulus
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Convolvulus \Con*vol"vu*lus\ (k[o^]n*v[o^]l"v[-u]*l[u^]s), n.; pl. L. Convolvuli, E. Convoluluses. [L., bindweed, fr. convolvere to roll around. So named from its twining stems.] (Bot.) A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed ( Convolvulus arvensis), and formerly the morning-glory, but this is now transferred to the genus Ipom[ae]a.
The luster of the long convolvuluses
That coiled around the stately stems.
--Tennyson.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context botany English) Any of several plants, of the genus ''Convolvulus'', found in temperate climates, having small trumpet-shaped flowers. 2 (context zoology English) A species of hawkmoth, (taxlink Agrius convolvuli species noshow=1 nomul=1).
WordNet
n. any of numerous plants of the genus Convolvulus
[also: convolvuli (pl)]
Wikipedia
Convolvulus is a genus of about 200 to 250 species of flowering plants in the bindweed family Convolvulaceae, with a cosmopolitan distribution. Common names include bindweed and morning glory, both names shared with other closely related genera.
They are annual or perennial herbaceous vines, bines and (a few species of) woody shrubs, growing to 0.3–3 m tall. The leaves are spirally arranged, and the flowers trumpet-shaped, mostly white or pink, but blue, violet, purple or yellow in some species.
Many of the species are problematic weeds, which can swamp other more valuable plants by climbing over them, but some are also cultivated for their attractive flowers. Some species are globally threatened.
Convolvulus species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including the convolvulus hawk moth, the sweet potato leaf miner (Bedellia somnulentella) and the gem; the leaf miner Bucculatrix cantabricella feeds exclusively on C. cantabricus.
Species include:
- Convolvulus acanthocladus
- Convolvulus aitchisonii
- Convolvulus althaeoides – mallow bindweed, mallow-leaf bindweed
- Convolvulus ammannii
- Convolvulus angustissimus
- Convolvulus arvensis – lesser bindweed, field bindweed, common bindweed, white convolvulus, creeping jenny, perennial morning glory
- Convolvulus assyricus
- Convolvulus betonicifolius
- Convolvulus boissieri
- Convolvulus calvertii
- Convolvulus canariensis
- Convolvulus cantabrica
- Convolvulus capensis
- Convolvulus carrii
- Convolvulus cataonnicus
- Convolvulus cephalopodus
- Convolvulus chilensis
- Convolvulus cneorum – shrubby bindweed, silvery bindweed, silverbush
- Convolvulus compactus
- Convolvulus divaricatus
- Convolvulus dorycnium
- Convolvulus equitans – grey bindweed, Texas bindweed
- Convolvulus erinaceus
- Convolvulus erubescens – blushing bindweed, pink bindweed, Australian bindweed
- Convolvulus eyreanus
- Convolvulus floridus – guadil, morning-glory-tree, rhodium-wood
- Convolvulus fractosaxosa
- Convolvulus fruticosus
- Convolvulus glomeratus
- Convolvulus gortschakovii
- Convolvulus graminetinus
- Convolvulus hermanniae
- Convolvulus holosericeus
- Convolvulus humilis
- Convolvulus kotschyanus
- Convolvulus lanatus
- Convolvulus leiocalycinus
- Convolvulus lineatus
- Convolvulus mauritanicus – African bindweed, synonym for Convolvulus sabatius
- Convolvulus nodiflorus – aguinaldo blanco
- Convolvulus nyctagineus
- Convolvulus ocellatus
- Convolvulus oleifolius
- Convolvulus pentapetaloides
- Convolvulus persicus
- Convolvulus phrygius
- Convolvulus pilosellifolius – soft bindweed
- Convolvulus prostratus
- Convolvulus pseudocantabricus
- Convolvulus pyrrhotrichus
- Convolvulus remotus
- Convolvulus rhyniospermus
- Convolvulus rottlerianus
- Convolvulus sabatius – blue rock bindweed, ground blue-convolvulus
- Convolvulus scammonia – scammony
- Convolvulus scindicus
- Convolvulus scoparius – lignum rhodium, rhodium-wood
- Convolvulus simulans
- Convolvulus spinosus
- Convolvulus steppicola
- Convolvulus stocksii
- Convolvulus suffruticosus
- Convolvulus trabutianus
- Convolvulus tragacanthoides
- Convolvulus tricolor – dwarf convolvulus, dwarf morning glory
- Convolvulus valentinus
- Convolvulus virgatus
- Convolvulus waitaha
- Convolvulus wallichianus – Wallich's bindweed
Usage examples of "convolvulus".
But he most probably refers here to the Batatas, or sweet Potato, a Convolvulus, which was a popular esculent vegetable at that date, of tropical origin, and to which our Potato has since been thought to bear a resemblance.
I shall never forget how lovely she was in peachblow brocade, with a wreath of convolvulus in her hair.
Wild charlock--a clear yellow--pink pimpernels, pink-streaked convolvulus, great white convolvulus, double-yellow toadflax, blue borage, broad rays of blue chicory, tall corn-cockles, azure corn-flowers, the great mallow, almost a bush, purple knapweed--I will make no further catalogue, but there are pages more of flowers, great and small, that grow at the edge of the plough, from the coltsfoot that starts out of the clumsy clod in spring to the white clematis.
The remaining traces of the fences are a few curls of rusting wire stapled to wooden posts almost hidden by bryony and convolvulus.
Automatically as breathing, she murmured the name of each weed as she tossed it into a pile by the open driveway gate: Ambrosia artemisiifolia, Convolvulus arvensis, Taraxacum officinale.
There were creepers hanging from the upper branches, and the bells of the flowers of the creepers, great waxy white things like convolvuluses, hung down fast asleep.
The CLIMBING BUCKWHEAT, or Black Bindweed, also called Bearbind and Cornbind, is Polygonum Convolvulus (Linn.
Botanical: Convolvulus Soldanella - Habitat - The Sea Bindweed (C.
I doubted somehow that she would appreciate it, but I wanted to do it and so I made a small lodge beside the stream, cutting the wit hies and bending them into a hooded shelter into which I wove cornflowers, poppies, ox-eyes, foxgloves and long tangling swathes of pink convolvulus.
The most of the Forest Sauvage was almost impenetrable, an enormous barrier of eternal trees, the dead ones fallen against the live and held to them by ivy, the living struggling up in competition with each other towards the sun which gave them life, the floor boggy through lack of drainage, or tindery from old wood so that you might suddenly tumble through a decayed tree trunk into an ant's nest, or laced with brambles and bindweed and honeysuckle and convolvulus and teazles and the stuff which country people call sweethearts, until you would be torn to pieces in three yards.