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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[Gr. [GREEK] a bean + [GREEK] to bend, to slope.]

(Bot.)

Formerly, a genus of plants including the cypress vine (

Quamoclit vulgaris

, now called

Ipomœa Quamoclit

). The genus is now merged in Ipomœa.

Noun.

A plant of the genus Ipomoea.

See also: quamoclit

Quamoclit

(obsolete) A genus of plants including the cypress vine, later merged into Ipomoea.

See also: Quamoclit

quamoclit ‎(plural quamoclits)

(botany) Any plant of the former genus Quamoclit.
- 1990, Jennifer Bennett, Turid Forsyth, The Harrowsmith annual garden
  Also, quamoclits fit well into window boxes, especially when paired with other vines such as thunbergia, and they will cascade over a wall or spread over the ground, low shrubs and rocks.