Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The typical genus of the family Convolutidæ. C. paradoxa, of the North Sea and the Baltic, is an example.
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On flatter areas between the upland moor and the forest edge are areas of moorland or upland grassland composed of Agrostis producta, Festuca convoluta, Koeleria gracilis, Deschampsia sp.,
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Examples of these are Xanthomaculina convoluta and Parmelia hueana.
Namib desert 2008
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Inland from this strip of vegetation are vast gravel plains that are largely devoid of vegetation except for fields of colorful lichens, including the species Teloschistes flavicans, Parmelia convoluta, and Usnea spp.
Namib desert 2008
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The separate petals of the cistus and cherry fall as easily as the foxglove drops its bells; -- on the other hand, there are monopetalous things that don't drop, but hold on like the convoluta, [19] and make the rest of the tree sad for their dying.
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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In watching the bells of the purple bindweed fade at evening, let them learn the fourth verse of the prayer of Hezekiah, as it is in the Vulgate -- "Generatio mea ablata est, et convoluta est a me, sicut tabernaculum pastoris," -- and they will not forget the name of the fast-fading -- ever renewed -- "belle d'un jour."
Proserpina, Volume 2 Studies Of Wayside Flowers John Ruskin 1859
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Gluma bivalvis, fpatiolo a calyce remota: valvula exterior magna, calycis dimidii lon - gitudinc, obtufifrima, comprefla, dorfo verfus apicem maxime gibbo, marginibus ereftis conniventibus; interior linearis, fu - bulato-convoluta, intra rimam excerioris rccondita.
Travels through that part of North America formerly called Louisiana. 1771
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