Hypertext Webster Gateway: "scandent"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Scandent \Scan"dent\, a. [L. scandens, -entis, p. pr. of
scandere to climb.]
Climbing.
Note: Scandent plants may climb either by twining, as the
hop, or by twisted leafstalks, as the clematis, or by
tendrils, as the passion flower, or by rootlets, as the
ivy.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
scandent
adj : used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb; "a
climbing fern"; "plants of a creeping or scandent
nature" [syn: {climbing(a)}]
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