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Definition of Genus convolvulus
1. Noun. Genus of mostly climbing or scrambling herbs and shrubs: bindweed.
Group relationships: Convolvulaceae, Family Convolvulaceae, Morning-glory Family
Member holonyms: Convolvulus, Convolvulus Arvensis, Field Bindweed, Wild Morning-glory
Lexicographical Neighbors of Genus Convolvulus
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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