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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Convolvulus

/(kŏn*vŏl"vū̇*lŭs)/ · Con·vol·vu·lus · IPA
01 n. A large genus of plants having monopetalous flowers, including the common bindweed (Convolvulus arvensis), and formerly the morning-glory, …
pl. Convolvuli, Convoluluses ((#))
  1. 1.
    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.(Bot.)
    “The luster of the long convolvuluses That coiled around the stately stems.” Tennyson.