convolvulus scammonia

1. 1.

   twining plant of Asia Minor having cream-colored to purple flowers and long thick roots yielding a cathartic resin

   Synonymsscammony

   Broaderconvolvulus

Questions about convolvulus scammonia

What does convolvulus scammonia mean?

convolvulus scammonia means "twining plant of Asia Minor having cream-colored to purple flowers and long thick roots yielding a cathartic resin".

What is another word for convolvulus scammonia?

Close synonyms include scammony. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is convolvulus scammonia a common word?

convolvulus scammonia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.