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leaf-climber

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noun

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

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Lastly, a species of Bignonia is at the same time both a leaf-climber and a tendril-bearer; and other closely allied species are twiners.

From The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants by Charles Darwin

Consequently, we here behold a plant in an actual state of transition from a leaf-climber to a tendril- bearer.

From The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants by Charles Darwin

We have seen in the Table in the first chapter that Mikania scandens is a regular twiner, and F. Muller informs me that in S. Brazil there is another species which is a leaf-climber.

From The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants by Charles Darwin

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

From More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 by Sir Francis Darwin

Firstly, Corydalis claviculata, but then this plant might be called a leaf-climber.

From The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants by Charles Darwin

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