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Scandent

//ˈskæn.dənt// adj

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Adjective
  1. 1
    Climbing, without obvious morphological adaptations. not-comparable

    "I found but a single specimen—a scandent shrub of Datura metel, at a house site in a small coastal village, planted, I was told, as a remedy for asthma."

Adjective
  1. 1
    used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb wordnet

Etymology

From the present participle stem of Latin scandere (“to climb”).

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