scandent
English
Etymology
From the present participle stem of Latin scandere (“to climb”).
Adjective
scandent (comparative more scandent, superlative most scandent)
- (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.
- 1985, Wade Davis, The Serpent and the Rainbow, Simon & Schuster, p. 52:
French
Verb
scandent
- third-person plural present indicative of scander
- third-person plural present subjunctive of scander
Latin
Verb
scandent
- third-person plural future active indicative of scandō
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