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- an Old World plant with flat five-petalled flowers and glossy leaves. Some kinds are grown as ornamentals and some contain alkaloids used in medicine长春花。
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- Genera Vinca and Catharanthus, family Apocynaceae.蔓长春花属和长春花属, 夹竹桃科。
词源
late Old English peruince, from late Latin pervinca, reinforced in Middle English by Anglo-Norman French pervenke. The change of -v- to -w- and the addition of -le seem to have occurred before the appearance of PERIWINKLE2.