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vinca

[ ving-kuh ]

vinca

/ ˈɪŋə /

noun

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Origin of vinca1

1865–70; < New Latin Vinca type genus < Late Latin pervinca periwinkle 2
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of vinca1

New Latin, from Latin pervinca periwinkle
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After the fire, their landscaper, Anne Phillips of Go Green Gardeners in Van Nuys, recommended they plant fast-growing non-native plants such as flowering vinca vines and Pride of Madeira shrubs to stabilize the slope and prevent erosion from the impending winter rains.

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Experts from Serbia's Vinca nuclear research institute have reportedly moved the head of the lightning rod to a safer place.

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As a volunteer with the Invasive Management Area Program with the Fairfax County Park Authority, I am frustrated that local garden centers continue to sell flats of invasive material such as English ivy, honeysuckle and vinca vine without a label indicating that these are wildly invasive and killing the trees in our woods.

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Most of the grounds were covered with refuse and thickets of common SoCal landscaping plants — jades, ivy, vinca and morning glory — and he’s been reshaping the garden ever since.

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Instead, we see a plague of English ivy, winter creeper, vinca, honeysuckle vine, lesser celandine and multiflora rose.

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