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Definition of Climbers
1. climber [n] - See also: climber
Lexicographical Neighbors of Climbers
Literary usage of Climbers
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson (1907)
"The tendency to over-pruning of the climbers on walls ends often in a kind ...
Proof of this is in the handsome masses of climbers on the high walls of the ..."
2. The English Flower Garden and Home Grounds: Design and Arrangement Shown by by William Robinson, F. L. S., William Robinson (1906)
"The tendency to over-pruning of the climbers on walls ends often in a kind ...
Proof of this is in the handsome masses of climbers on the high walls of the ..."
3. The Burgess Animal Book for Children by Thornton Waldo Burgess (1920)
"CHAPTER XXXVIII TWO WONDERFUL, MOUNTAIN climbers " PETER, you have been up in
the Old Pasture many times, so you must have seen the Sheep there," said Old ..."
4. Charles Darwin's Works by Charles Darwin (1876)
"The few hook-climbers which I have observed, namely, Galium aparine, Rubus
australis, and some climbing * Journal of Linn. Soc. vol. ix. plants growing ..."
5. The Movements and Habits of Climbing Plants by Charles Darwin (1891)
"Pl.mts climbing by the aid of hooks, or merely scrambling over other
plants—Root-climbers, adhesive matter secreted by the rootlets— General conclusions ..."
6. The Polar and Tropical Worlds: A Description of Man and Nature in the Polar by Georg Hartwig (1872)
"Monkeys: Good climbers, but bad Walkers—Imperfectly known to the ... We will,
regardless of other peculiarities, designate them as climbers ; and will in ..."
7. The Animal Kingdom Arranged in Conformity with Its Organization by Georges Cuvier, Edward Griffith, Charles Hamilton Smith, Edward Pidgeon, John Edward Gray, George Robert Gray (1829)
"... some of the genera avail themselves, by hanging and climbing on the trunks of
trees. Hence they have been named in common, climbers, ..."
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