scandent en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈskæn.dənt/
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Etymology
From the present participle stem of Latin scandere (“to climb”).
Meanings
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(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.
1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, page 52: