scandent
adj/ˈskæn.dənt/
Etymology From the present participle stem of Latin scandere (“to climb”).
- 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, page 52:
- Derived terms
- scandently