Calystegia sepium
- noun
- Specialized
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Calystegia sepium
- The rampant growth of Calystegia sepium can quickly cover garden fences and hedges.
Examples
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In late spring, the pink and white flowers of Calystegia sepium bloom along country roadsides.
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Gardeners often struggle to remove Calystegia sepium due to its extensive root system.
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Calystegia sepium blooms beautifully.
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Look at the lovely Calystegia sepium!
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In late spring, the pink and white flowers of Calystegia sepium bloom along country roadsides.
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Gardeners often struggle to remove Calystegia sepium due to its extensive root system.
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The rampant growth of Calystegia sepium can quickly cover garden fences and hedges.
Synonyms
A climbing plant with pink or white flowers shaped like a trumpet that grows along hedges
A climbing wildflower with twining stems and pink or white trumpet-shaped flowers
Surface Forms
Morphology
Calystegia + sepium
The first constituent 'Calystegia' identifies a plant genus (climbing bindweeds), so a learner who knows that would grasp this is the name of a plant species. However 'sepium' is a Latin species epithet (not a common English word and not defined here), so the specific sense ('hedge' bindweed) is not transparently available to a typical B1 learner; overall the compositional clue yields partial but not full predictability.
Etymology
Calystegia sepium comes from old Greek words: Calystegia means 'covered cup' because the flower has leaf-like parts that hide its base, and sepium means 'of hedges' since the plant often climbs and grows in hedges. So the name helps you picture its trumpet-shaped flower and its habit of covering fences and hedges.
