leaf-climber

British  

noun

1. a plant that climbs by using leaves specialized as tendrils

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Example Sentences

Now mark the difference in another leaf-climber—viz.,

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I want it fearfully, for it is a leaf-climber, and therefore sacred.

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I begin to think that one of the commonest means of transition is the same individual plant having the same part in different states: thus Corydalis claviculata, if you look to one leaf, may be called a tendril-bearer; if you look to another leaf it may be called a leaf-climber.

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Nevertheless I do not wish to assert that they are never irritable; for the growing axis of the leaf-climbing, but not spirally twining, Lophospermum scandens is, certainly irritable; but this case gives me confidence that ordinary twiners do not possess any such quality, for directly after putting a stick to the Lophopermum, I saw that it behaved differently from a true twiner or any other leaf-climber.

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SOLANACEAE.—Solanum jasminoides.—Some of the species in this large genus are twiners; but the present species is a true leaf-climber.

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