Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for SCAN'DENT
SCAN'DENT, a. [L. scandens, scando, to climb.]
Climbing, either with spiral tendrils for its support, or by adhesive fibers, as a stalk; climbing; performing the office of a tendril, as a petiole. – Smith. Bigelow.
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