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Definition of Twiners
1. twiner [n] - See also: twiner
Lexicographical Neighbors of Twiners
Literary usage of Twiners
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant Physiology by Vladimir Ivanovich Palladin (1918)
"twiners.1 — The stems of many plants are so slender and so weak mechanically ...
twiners have long, slender stems, the growing tips of which twine about ..."
2. The Green-house Companion: Comprising a General Course of Green-house and by John Claudius Loudon (1825)
"With the exception of a few climbers or twiners, all of these are grown in pots.
... climbers and twiners introduced into a green-house should be very few, ..."
3. Gardening in California: Landscape and Flower by John McLaren (1908)
"CLIMBERS AND twiners. AMPELOPSIS. AMPELOPSIS is a genus of about twenty species
of hardy ... A genus of woody twiners with irregular and grotesque flowers, ..."
4. The Gardeners' Dictionary: Describing the Plants, Fruits and Vegetables by George W. Johnson (1877)
"... STOTE DECIDUOUS twiners. T. Aifo>ni 'Alton'»). 10. Pale purple. June. .... twiners ..."
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