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C scandensCobaea Co*b[ae]"a (k[-o]*b[=e]"[.a]), n. [Named after D. Cobo,
a Spanish botanist.]
A genus of climbing plants, native of Mexico and South
America. C. scandens is a conservatory climber with large
bell-shaped flowers. Celastrus scandensWaxwork Wax"work`, n.
1. Work made of wax; especially, a figure or figures formed
or partly of wax, in imitation of real beings.
2. (Bot.) An American climbing shrub (Celastrus scandens).
It bears a profusion of yellow berrylike pods, which open
in the autumn, and display the scarlet coverings of the
seeds. Celastrus scandensBittersweet Bit"ter*sweet`, n.
1. Anything which is bittersweet.
2. A kind of apple so called. --Gower.
3. (Bot.)
(a) A climbing shrub, with oval coral-red berries
(Solanum dulcamara); woody nightshade. The whole
plant is poisonous, and has a taste at first sweetish
and then bitter. The branches are the officinal
dulcamara.
(b) An American woody climber (Celastrus scandens),
whose yellow capsules open late in autumn, and
disclose the red aril which covers the seeds; -- also
called Roxbury waxwork. Entada scandensScimiter Scim"i*ter, Scimitar Scim"i*tar, n. [F. cimeterre,
cf. It. scimitarra, Sp. cimitarra; fr. Biscayan cimetarra
with a sharp edge; or corrupted from Per. shimsh[=i]r.]
1. A saber with a much curved blade having the edge on the
convex side, -- in use among Mohammedans, esp., the Arabs
and persians. [Written also cimeter, and scymetar.]
2. A long-handled billhook. See Billhook.
Scimiter pods (Bot.), the immense curved woody pods of a
leguminous woody climbing plant (Entada scandens)
growing in tropical India and America. They contain hard
round flattish seeds two inches in diameter, which are
made into boxes. Entada scandensCacoon Ca*coon", n.
One of the seeds or large beans of a tropical vine (Entada
scandens) used for making purses, scent bottles, etc. Entada scandensFlorida bean Flor"i*da bean" (Bot.)
(a) The large, roundish, flattened seed of Mucuna urens.
See under Bean.
(b) One of the very large seeds of the Entada scandens. Scandent
Scandent Scan"dent, a. [L. scandens, -entis, p. pr. of
scandere to climb.]
Climbing.
Note: Scandent plants may climb either by twining, as the
hop, or by twisted leafstalks, as the clematis, or by
tendrils, as the passion flower, or by rootlets, as the
ivy.
Meaning of Scanden from wikipedia
- (3-hydroxyphenethylamine). The drug is a
naturally occurring constituent of
Limacia scanden Lour. and is
described as an
adrenergic and
serotonergic agent. It may...
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Cobaea scandens, the cup-and-saucer vine,
cathedral bells,
Mexican ivy, or
monastery bells, is a
species of
flowering plant in the
phlox family Polemoniaceae...
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Zanthoxylum scandens is a
species of
woody plant in the
family Rutaceae.
Zanthoxylum scandens is a
woody plant,
observed as a
shrub or
woody climber....
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Malaisia scandens (syn.
Trophis scandens), the
burny vine or crow ash, is a
species of
large woody vines,
constituting part of the fig
plant family. They...
- The 1889 book The
Useful Native Plants of
Australia records that
Entada Scandens has the
common names included "Queensland Bean".
Indigenous Australians...
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Celastrus scandens,
commonly called American bittersweet, is a
species of
bittersweet that
blooms mostly in June and is
commonly found on rich, well-drained...
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Derris scandens is a
plant species in the
genus Derris of the
family Fabaceae. It
grows throughout the
Indian subcontinent,
Southeast Asia,
Malesia and...
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Mikania scandens is a
species of
flowering plant in the
family Asteraceae. Its
common names include climbing hempvine,
climbing hempweed, and louse-plaster...
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Philodendron hederaceum, the
heartleaf philodendron (syn.
Philodendron scandens) is a
species of
flowering plant in the
family Araceae,
native to Central...
- The
common cactus finch or
small cactus finch (Geospiza
scandens) is a
species of bird in the Darwin's
finch group of the
tanager family Thraupidae. It...
