scandent

English

Etymology

From the present participle stem of Latin scandere (to climb).

Adjective

scandent (not comparable)

  1. (botany) Climbing, without obvious morphological adaptations.
    • 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, p. 52:
      I found but a single specimen—a scandent shrub of Datura metel, at a house site in a small coastal village, planted, I was told, as a remedy for asthma.

French

Verb

scandent

  1. third-person plural present indicative of scander
  2. third-person plural present subjunctive of scander

Latin

Verb

scandent

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of scandō
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