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Word: convolvulus (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1948-1948
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Usage:

...covered by the shreds of what was once the grey-green uniform of a German soldier. A sharp-edged fragment of a Soviet shell had shattered his face. The gaping mouth of the skeleton was filled with fertile loam and from this was already rising a curling shoot of convolvulus, bearing its delicate flowers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Beside the Quiet Don | 2/9/1948 | See Source »

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