Convolvulaceae
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| Noun | 1. | Convolvulaceae - morning glory; bindweed; sweet potato; plants having trumpet-shaped flowers and a climbing or twining habit dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination order Polemoniales, Polemoniales - Polemoniaceae; Solanaceae; Boraginaceae; Labiatae; Lentibulariaceae; Pedaliaceae; in some classifications includes the order Scrophulariales genus Convolvulus - genus of mostly climbing or scrambling herbs and shrubs: bindweed bindweed - any of several vines of the genera Convolvulus and Calystegia having a twining habit Argyreia, genus Argyreia - woody climbers of tropical Asia to Australia Calystegia, genus Calystegia - climbing or scrambling herbs: bindweed Cuscuta, genus Cuscuta - genus of twining leafless parasitic herbs lacking chlorophyll: dodder genus Dichondra - genus of chiefly tropical prostrate perennial herbs with creeping stems that root at the nodes genus Ipomoea, Ipomoea - morning glory |
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