A chemical compound or active substance extracted from or found in convolvulus plants.
From convolvulus plus the suffix -in, used in chemistry to name organic compounds and alkaloids found in plants, from Greek -ine.
Plant scientists discovered that convolvulus contains powerful compounds, so they named them convolvulin—it's chemistry's way of saying 'the active ingredient that makes this plant do something!'
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