Convolvulus

Quick meaning: Convolvulus is a noun meaning (botany) Any of several plants, of the genus Convolvulus, found in temperate climates, having small trumpet-shaped flowers.

Meaning

(botany) Any of several plants, of the genus Convolvulus, found in temperate climates, having small trumpet-shaped flowers.

More Meanings

1. (zoology) A species of hawkmoth, Agrius convolvuli.

Example Sentences

1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 51, Already the convolvulus moth was spinning over the flowers.

In this painting he uses the lovers for his narrative and makes his symbolic points with the convolvulus, signifying entanglements, climbing up the steps.

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.

Word Forms

• convolvuluses
• convolvuli

Synonyms for convolvulus

Depending on context, synonyms include bindweed.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include polygonum, tricolor, batatas, jalapa, convulvulus, bindweed.

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