Scandent

Word SCANDENT
Character 8
Hyphenation scan dent
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Scandent"

What do we mean by scandent?

Climbing. adjective

In botany: Climbing; ascending by attaching itself to a support in any manner. See climb, 3.

Performing the office of a tendril, as the petiole of Clematis.

In ornithology, same as scansorial, 2.

Climbing. adjective

Climbing, without obvious morphological adaptations. adjective

Used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb adjective

Climbing, without obvious morphological adaptations.

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The word "scandent" in example sentences

At least 137 species of trees and shrubs occur here, 18 species of vine and scandent shrubs, and seven species of palms. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Notable plant species include tree ferns (Angiopteris evecta) with 9-meter-wide canopies in Moorean valleys and a scandent cliff-dwelling Metrosideros sp. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Description: Erect, decumbent or scandent perennial woody herb usually 0. 3-1 m high, occasionally to 2 m, usually with numerous ascending branches. ❋ Unknown (1999)

So did Pedro; who continued along the edge of the garden, leading us to a sheltered corner where the ground was covered by the dense foliage of a scandent vine. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)

The bushes were almost ten feet tall, scandent with small white flowers, red fruits like those of a barberry, and leaves of a brilliant yellowish green hue that set them apart from the other plants in the garden. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)

Usually found growing around the malocas, it is a scandent vine with opposite leaves and small pink berries that are said to sweeten the brew. ❋ Wade Davis (1996)

Curiously, after walking the hills along the road over the mountains toward the southern port of Jacmel, and the barren fields along the east coast as far as Anse-à-Veau, 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. ❋ Wade Davis (1985)

Stems are densely tufted, branched, geniculately ascending, erect or the branches scandent, solid, smooth and polished, 1 to 7 feet. ❋ K. Rangachari (N/A)

It is a stout, scandent, evergreen shrub, which strongly resembles the myrtle. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

-- _Piper Betel_, a scandent species of the shrubby evergreen tribe of plants belonging to the pepper family, furnishes the celebrated betel leaf of the Southern Asiatics, in which they enclose a few slices of the areca nut and a little shell lime; this they chew to sweeten the breath, and to keep off the pangs of hunger, and it acts also as a narcotic. ❋ P. L. Simmonds (N/A)

-- In the brilliant deep scarlet of its large buds, and the bright orange-scarlet of the expanded flowers, this species stands quite alone among the night-flowering, scandent-stemmed Cereuses. ❋ W. Watson (N/A)

Stem often long and erect, sometimes scandent, branching, ridged or angular; flowers from the sides of the stem; calyx tube elongated and regular; stamens free. ❋ W. Watson (N/A)

Small partridges are common: observed a curious Certhioid creeper, whose flight is like that of the Hoopoe; it is scandent over rocks. ❋ William Griffith (N/A)

Soloviev, well-grown and already obese, with a broad, ruddy Volga face and a light, scandent little beard, belonged to those kindly, merry and simple fellows, of which there are sufficiently many in any university. ❋ Bernard Guilbert Guerney (1904)

-- A vigorous plant with scandent stem 2-4 meters long, the more recent growth woolly. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)

-- A plant with yellow flowers and scandent stem, climbing straight up trees or artificial supports. ❋ Jerome Beers Thomas (1891)

Ascending again, the path strikes up the hill, through a thick forest of Sal (_Vateria robusta_) and other trees, spanned with cables of scandent _Bauhinia_ stems. ❋ Unknown (1864)

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