Convolvulus sepium
- noun
- Specialized
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Convolvulus sepium
- The hedgerow was covered with the pink blooms of Convolvulus sepium.
Examples
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Gardeners often struggle to control Convolvulus sepium because of its vigorous growth habit.
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The garden was filled with beautiful Convolvulus sepium flowers.
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Convolvulus sepium is sometimes mistakenly identified as other types of bindweed.
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Have you seen the Convolvulus sepium blooming this spring?
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The hedgerow was covered with the pink blooms of Convolvulus sepium.
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Gardeners often struggle to control Convolvulus sepium because of its vigorous growth habit.
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Have you seen the Convolvulus sepium blooming this spring?
Synonyms
A climbing plant with pink or white flowers shaped like small trumpets that often grows over fences and hedges
A climbing wildflower with twining stems and pink or white trumpet-shaped flowers
A climbing plant with pink or white funnel-shaped flowers that often grows as a weed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Convolvulus + sepium
This is a Latin binomial (scientific) name rather than a compositional English phrase; its referent (a particular climbing plant) cannot be derived from the parts because 'sepium' is not an English lexical item and 'Convolvulus' is a technical genus name. A B1 learner who knows the constituent tokens as isolated forms would not be able to infer the common meaning or description from them, so the expression is not transparently interpretable.
Etymology
Convolvulus sepium comes from old Latin words: convolvulus meaning 'to roll or twist' and sepium meaning 'hedge'. So the name gives a picture of a plant that 'wraps' and climbs around hedges and fences, which is exactly how it grows.
