Definition of climbing

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Climbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Clim.

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Redwithe :: Redwithe (n.) A west Indian climbing shrub (Combretum Jacquini) with slender reddish branchlets.
Wistaria :: Wistaria (n.) A genus of climbing leguminous plants bearing long, pendulous clusters of pale bluish flowers..
Upas :: Upas (n.) A virulent poison used in Java and the adjacent islands for poisoning arrows. One kind, upas antiar, is, derived from upas tree (Antiaris toxicaria). Upas tieute is prepared from a climbing plant (Strychnos Tieute)..
Hopbind :: Hopbind (n.) The climbing stem of the hop.
Woodbine :: Woodbine (v. t.) A climbing plant having flowers of great fragrance (Lonicera Periclymenum); the honeysuckle.
Running :: Running (a.) Extending by a slender climbing or trailing stem; as, a running vine..
Tendril :: Tendril (a.) Clasping; climbing as a tendril.
Moonseed :: Moonseed (n.) A climbing plant of the genus Menispermum; -- so called from the crescentlike form of the seeds.
Nepenthes :: Nepenthes (n.) A genus of climbing plants found in India, Malaya, etc., which have the leaves prolonged into a kind of stout tendril terminating in a pitcherlike appendage, whence the plants are often called pitcher plants and monkey-cups. There are about thirty species, of which the best known is Nepenthes distillatoria. See Pitcher plant..
Outclimb :: Outclimb (v. t.) To climb bevond; to surpass in climbing.
Fingrigo :: Fingrigo (n.) A prickly, climbing shrub of the genus Pisonia. The fruit is a kind of berry..
Twining :: Twining (a.) The act of one who, or that which, twines; (Bot.) the act of climbing spirally..
Yapock :: Yapock (n.) A South American aquatic opossum (Chironectes variegatus) found in Guiana and Brazil. Its hind feet are webbed, and its fore feet do not have an opposable thumb for climbing. Called also water opossum..
Tare :: Tare (n.) A name of several climbing or diffuse leguminous herbs of the genus Vicia; especially, the V. sativa, sometimes grown for fodder..
Gelsemium :: Gelsemium (n.) A genus of climbing plants. The yellow (false) jasmine (Gelsemium sempervirens) is a native of the Southern United States. It has showy and deliciously fragrant flowers.
Stephanotis :: Stephanotis (n.) A genus of climbing asclepiadaceous shrubs, of Madagascar, Malaya, etc. They have fleshy or coriaceous opposite leaves, and large white waxy flowers in cymes..
Rise :: Rise (v.) To move from a lower position to a higher; to ascend; to mount up. Specifically: -- (a) To go upward by walking, climbing, flying, or any other voluntary motion; as, a bird rises in the air; a fish rises to the bait..
Scramble :: Scramble (n.) The act of scrambling, climbing on all fours, or clambering..
Cragsman :: Cragsman (n.) One accustomed to climb rocks or crags; esp., one who makes a business of climbing the cliffs overhanging the sea to get the eggs of sea birds or the birds themselves..
Bittersweet :: Bittersweet (n.) A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries (Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish and then bitter. The branches are the officinal dulcamara..
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