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(botany) Any of several plants, of the genus Convolvulus, found in temperate climates, having small trumpet-shaped 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.
1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 51, Already the convolvulus moth was spinning over the flowers.
Use convolvulus when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Convolvulus means (botany) Any of several plants, of the genus Convolvulus, found in temperate climates, having small trumpet-shaped flowers..
Common synonyms include bindweed, morning glory.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
In this painting he uses the lovers for his narrative and makes his symbolic points with the convolvulus, signifying entanglements, climbing up the steps.
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