scandent

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Pronunciation

/ˈskæn.dənt/

Definition of scandent

1 sense · 1 part of speech · etymology included

(not-comparable)Climbing, without obvious morphological adaptations.

“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.”

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

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