CONVOLVULUS (convolvuli)

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Irregular inflected form: convolvuli   

 Dictionary entry overview: What does convolvulus mean? 

• CONVOLVULUS (noun)
  The noun CONVOLVULUS has 1 sense:

1. any of numerous plants of the genus Convolvulus

  Familiarity information: CONVOLVULUS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CONVOLVULUS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of numerous plants of the genus Convolvulus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("convolvulus" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "convolvulus"):

Convolvulus scammonia; scammony (twining plant of Asia Minor having cream-colored to purple flowers and long thick roots yielding a cathartic resin)

Holonyms ("convolvulus" is a member of...):

genus Convolvulus (genus of mostly climbing or scrambling herbs and shrubs: bindweed)

 Context examples 

It was pleasant to see the convolvulus, the passion-flower, and the begonia, all reminding me of home, here among these inhospitable rocks.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Bessie had been down into the kitchen, and she brought up with her a tart on a certain brightly painted china plate, whose bird of paradise, nestling in a wreath of convolvuli and rosebuds, had been wont to stir in me a most enthusiastic sense of admiration; and which plate I had often petitioned to be allowed to take in my hand in order to examine it more closely, but had always hitherto been deemed unworthy of such a privilege.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)