Definition of Root climber

1. Noun. A plant that climbs by its adventitious roots e.g. ivy.

Generic synonyms: Climber

Lexicographical Neighbors of Root Climber

root canal irrigants
root canal of tooth
root canal orifice
root canal plugger
root canal preparation
root canal restoration
root canal therapy
root canal treatment
root canals
root cap
root caries
root caries index
root cause
root celery
root cellar
root climber (current term)
root crop
root cutting
root dehiscence
root end cyst
root end granuloma
root filaments
root for
root foramen
root hair
root hair cell
root kit
root mean square
root mean square velocity
root nodule

Literary usage of Root climber

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Trees: A Handbook of Forest-botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory by Harry Marshall Ward, Percy Groom (1905)
"Root- climber with glossy evergreen leaves. Hedera Helix, L. Ivy (Fig. 136). Evergreen root- climber, with ovate to broadly 5-angled, highly polished ..."

2. Scientific Papers of Asa Gray by Asa Gray (1889)
"Here is a tendril-climber which emulates a root-climber, such as the Ivy, in the facility with which it ascends smooth trunks, rocks, or walls. ..."

3. Scientific Papers of Asa Gray by Asa Gray, Charles Sprague Sargent (1889)
"Here is a tendril-climber which emulates a root-climber, such as the Ivy, in the facility with which it ascends smooth trunks, rocks, or walls. ..."

4. Aristocrats of the Garden by Ernest Henry Wilson (1917)
"This plant which climbs by means of tendrils which have discs at the ends, is not hardy around Boston though with care it can be kept alive. A root-climber ..."

5. Botany: An Elementary Text for Schools by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1901)
"A root-climber.-The English ivy. Straw Or galium, bitter- sweet(Solanum Dulcamara, not the celastrus), the tear-thumb ..."

6. Introduction to Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Otis William Caldwell (1914)
"Some plants, such as the dandelion and the plantains, have their leaves spread out in the form of a FIG. 56. Poison ivy, a root climber Reduced rosette at ..."

7. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"A stout root climber, ascending the highest trees; lateral branches 'A to 4 feet long. Also creeping on tho ground and over rocks. ..."

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