scandent
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From the present participle stem of Latin scandere (“to climb”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Adjective[edit]
scandent (not comparable)
- (botany) Climbing, without obvious morphological adaptations.
- 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 52:
- 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.
French[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
scandent
Latin[edit]
Verb[edit]
scandent
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