Associations to the word «Convolvulus»

Wiktionary

CONVOLVULUS, noun. (botany) Any of several plants, of the genus Convolvulus, found in temperate climates, having small trumpet-shaped flowers.
CONVOLVULUS, noun. (zoology) A species of hawkmoth, Agrius convolvuli.
CONVOLVULUS, proper noun. A taxonomic genus within the family Convolvulaceae   — the true bindweeds or convolvuluses.

Dictionary definition

CONVOLVULUS, noun. Any of numerous plants of the genus Convolvulus.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats