convolvulus

名词 n.
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英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of several plants, of the genus Convolvulus, found in temperate climates, having small trumpet-shaped flowers.
    — 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.
  2. A species of hawkmoth, Agrius convolvuli.
    — 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 51, Already the convolvulus moth was spinning over the flowers.

词形变化

convolvuluses plural convolvuli plural

词汇关系

近义词
bindweed morning glory

词源

From Latin convolvulus (“bindweed; caterpillar”), from convolvō (“convolve”).
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