Obs. [mod.L., fem. of convolvulus (sc. herba, planta).] A winding plant.

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1674.  Grew, Anat. Plants, III. II. vi. (1682), 136. The Wood of all Convolvula’s or Winders, stands more close and round together in or near the Center. Ibid., 137. Convolvula’s do not wind by any peculiar Nature … which other Trunks have not.

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