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Example sentences for "scandent"

Lexicographically close words:
scandalous; scandalously; scandals; scandalum; scandens; scanned; scanner; scanners; scanning; scans
  1. Small partridges are common: observed a curious Certhioid creeper, whose flight is like that of the Hoopoe; it is scandent over rocks.

  2. Ascending again, the path strikes up the hill, through a thick forest of Sal (Vateria robusta) and other trees, spanned with cables of scandent Bauhinia stems.

  3. At this elevation we found great scandent trees twisting around the trunks of others, and strangling them: the latter gradually decay, leaving the sheath of climbers as one of the most remarkable vegetable phenomena of these mountains.

  4. A plant with yellow flowers and scandent stem, climbing straight up trees or artificial supports.

  5. A vigorous plant with scandent stem 2-4 meters long, the more recent growth woolly.

  6. Carissa and Adhatoda are the most common, with Rottlera tinctoria, a plant which does not extend far into the plains, and a scandent leguminous shrub, apparently a species of Mucuna.

  7. A scandent Hydrangea, the loosely-adhering bark of which separates in long rolls like that of the birch, and is used as a substitute for paper, was seen twining round the trunks of trees.

  8. Grape vines, several scandent species of smilax and cissus, and a most singular vine allied to menispermum, are so intermixed with the sturdy under growth as to render the woods almost impassable.


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