Definition of Genus Convolvulus

1. Noun. Genus of mostly climbing or scrambling herbs and shrubs: bindweed.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Convolvulus

genus Conferva
genus Conilurus
genus Coniogramme
genus Conium
genus Connarus
genus Connochaetes
genus Conocarpus
genus Conoclinium
genus Conopodium
genus Conradina
genus Consolida
genus Contopus
genus Conuropsis
genus Convallaria
genus Convolvulus (current term)
genus Conyza
genus Copernicia
genus Coprinus
genus Coptis
genus Coracias
genus Coragyps
genus Corallorhiza
genus Corchorus
genus Cordaites
genus Cordia
genus Cordyline
genus Cordylus
genus Coregonus
genus Coreopsis

Literary usage of Genus Convolvulus

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1835)
"724, J refers it to the genus convolvulus under the name of C ... Some years afterwards he recognised his error and placed it in the genus convolvulus, ..."

2. The Ladies' Flower-garden of Ornamental Annuals. by Loudon (Jane) (1842)
"... we know not ; but they thrive reasonable well in our country if the year be anything kindly." This species was placed in the genus Convolvulus by ..."

3. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1902)
"... is a group of about 7 species, all from the Canary Islands, which Bentham and Hooker regard as a section of the genus Convolvulus. ..."

4. Medical Botany; Or, Illustrations and Descriptions of the Medicinal Plants ...by John Stephenson, James Morss Churchill, Gilbert Thomas Burnett by John Stephenson, James Morss Churchill, Gilbert Thomas Burnett (1834)
"... and even now there is a doubt as to whether the old genus convolvulus should be retained entire, or whether it should not be subdivided, and C. sepium ..."

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