Convolvulus

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  • noun. Any of various mostly trailing or twining plants of the widespread genus Convolvulus, having funnel-shaped flowers and including several weeds and a few grown as ornamentals.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. [NL.] One of the principal genera of the natural order Convolvulaceæ, of about 150 species, natives of temperate and subtropical regions, and especially abundant in the eastern Mediterranean region.
  • noun. [l. c] A plant of the genus Convolvulus.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • noun. 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 Ipomæa.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. Any of several plants, of the genus Convolvulus, found in temperate climates, having small trumpet-shaped flowers.
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  • noun. any of numerous plants of the genus Convolvulus
  • Word Usage
    "When the creature I now watched hovered before the blossom of a convolvulus whose calyx it tapped with a tongue shaped like a glass probe, it was almost invisible."
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