| 单词 | convolvulus major |
| 释义 | > as lemmasconvolvulus major a. A genus of plants, containing many species, found in temperate and subtropical climates, having slender twining stems and trumpet-shaped flowers. The English wild species are known as bindweeds (see bindweed n.). convolvulus minor and convolvulus major are florist's names of well-known garden annuals. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > bindweed or convolvulus woodbinec875 withwindc1000 bearbinda1325 bindweed1548 buckwheat1548 foalfoot1548 sea-cole1548 convolvulus1551 weedbind1551 soldanel1562 withweed1567 bindcorn1574 running buck1574 bind1575 ivy-bindweed1578 weedwind1578 windweed1578 withywind1578 nil1597 sea-bell1597 sea-bindweed1597 sea or Scottish scurvy-grass1597 sea-withwind1597 soldanella1597 ropeweed1598 bethwine1609 volubilis1664 Scotch scurvy-grassa1722 black bindweed1785 calystegia1880 sea convolvulus1921 bell-binder- 1551 W. Turner New Herball sig. L vjv Mesue describeth diverse kindes of Convolvulus. 1597 J. Gerard Herball ii. 714 The small Bindweede is called Conuoluulus minor..: in English Withwinde, Bindweede. 1640 J. Parkinson Theatrum Botanicum 170 This and other Convolvuli [being] herbaceous and annual. 1664 J. Evelyn Kalendarium Hortense 63 in Sylva Plant..Convolvulu's, Spanish..Jasmine. 1740 E. Montagu in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 73 Her clothes were embroidered upon white satin, with vine leaves and convolvolus's, and rose-buds. 1847 C. Brontë Jane Eyre I. iii. 28 Bird of paradise, nestling in a wreath of convolvuli and rosebuds. 1864 Ld. Tennyson Enoch Arden in Enoch Arden, etc. 32 The lustre of the long convolvuluses That coil'd around the stately stems. 1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 211 The blue Convolvulus minor of gardens (correctly C. tricolor) is a native of the South of Europe. The Major Convolvulus (Pharbitis purpurea), common in the Tropics, is probably an American species. < as lemmas |
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