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Definition of Climbing hempweed
1. Noun. Herb of tropical America having vanilla-scented flowers; climbs up trees.
Group relationships: Genus Mikania, Mikania
Generic synonyms: Vine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Climbing Hempweed
Literary usage of Climbing hempweed
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Botany of the United States North of Virginia: Comprising Descriptions of by Lewis Caleb Beck (1848)
"climbing hempweed. (In honor of Prof. Mian, of Prague, a botanist of the last
century.) Heads mostly 4-flowered. Receptacle naked, narrow. ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"This includes M. scande пя, the climbing hempweed, a common native weed, but a
pretty one. It has distinct foliage, the Ivs. being somewhat heart- shaped or ..."
3. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1890)
"Kunden», the climbing hempweed, is a high twiner, with cordate somewhat deltoid
or hastate leaves and heads of pale flesh-colored flowers in dense cymes, ..."
4. Practical Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Otis William Caldwell (1911)
"49),1 climbing false buckwheat (Polygonum), wild morning-glory, and climbing
hempweed (Mikania). These support themselves on the bushes or other plants, ..."
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