Obs. [mod.L., fem. of convolvulus (sc. herba, planta).] A winding plant.
1674. Grew, Anat. Plants, III. II. vi. (1682), 136. The Wood of all Convolvulas or Winders, stands more close and round together in or near the Center. Ibid., 137. Convolvulas do not wind by any peculiar Nature which other Trunks have not.