volubileadj.
Botany. rare.
= voluble adj. 4.
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voluble1753
volubilate1819
volubile1819
viticulose1866
1819 A. Rees Cycl. XXXVII Volubile, or Volubilate Stem or Stalk,..a name given to those of many plants, as all those the stems or stalks of which are of a twining or winding climbing nature.
1838 J. Murray Econ. Vegetation 48 Some stems are volubile; or ‘twine’ as the hop and honeysuckle, convolvolus, and ‘scarlet runner.’
1849 J. H. Balfour Man. Bot. §66 Stems have usually considerable firmness and solidity, but sometimes they..twist round other plants in a spiral manner like Woodbine, becoming volubile.
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