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self-clinging en · ADJ

Etymology

From self- + clinging.

Meanings

1. That clings to itself.
   • The self-clinging species sometimes need to be fixed to the wall at first so as to give them a hold, when they will afterwards require no support. 1901, Walter P. Wright, Cassell's Dictionary of Practical Gardening, page 40:
2. Of a strong attachment or fixation on one's sense of self.

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