scandent

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S0120300 (skăn′dənt)adj. Botany Climbing: a scandent vine.

[Latin scandēns, scandent-, present participle of scandere, to climb; see skand- in Indo-European roots.]

scandent

(ˈskændənt) adj (Botany) (of plants) having a climbing habit[C17: from Latin scandere to climb]

scan•dent

(ˈskæn dənt)

adj. climbing, as a plant. [1675–85; < Latin scandent-, s. of scandēns, present participle of scandere to climb; see -ent]

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Adj.

scandent - used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb; "plants of a creeping or scandent nature"ascending - moving or going or growing upward; "the ascending plane"; "the ascending staircase"; "the ascending stems of chickweed"

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adj used especially of plants

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