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Definition of Root climber
1. Noun. A plant that climbs by its adventitious roots e.g. ivy.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Root Climber
Literary usage of Root climber
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Trees: A Handbook of Forest-botany for the Woodlands and the Laboratory by Harry Marshall Ward, Percy Groom (1905)
"Root- climber with glossy evergreen leaves. Hedera Helix, L. Ivy (Fig. 136).
Evergreen root- climber, with ovate to broadly 5-angled, highly polished ..."
2. Scientific Papers of Asa Gray by Asa Gray (1889)
"Here is a tendril-climber which emulates a root-climber, such as the Ivy, in the
facility with which it ascends smooth trunks, rocks, or walls. ..."
3. Scientific Papers of Asa Gray by Asa Gray, Charles Sprague Sargent (1889)
"Here is a tendril-climber which emulates a root-climber, such as the Ivy, in the
facility with which it ascends smooth trunks, rocks, or walls. ..."
4. Aristocrats of the Garden by Ernest Henry Wilson (1917)
"This plant which climbs by means of tendrils which have discs at the ends, is
not hardy around Boston though with care it can be kept alive. A root-climber ..."
5. Botany: An Elementary Text for Schools by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1901)
"A root-climber.-The English ivy. Straw Or galium, bitter- sweet(Solanum Dulcamara,
not the celastrus), the tear-thumb ..."
6. Introduction to Botany by Joseph Young Bergen, Otis William Caldwell (1914)
"Some plants, such as the dandelion and the plantains, have their leaves spread
out in the form of a FIG. 56. Poison ivy, a root climber Reduced rosette at ..."
7. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"A stout root climber, ascending the highest trees; lateral branches 'A to 4 feet
long. Also creeping on tho ground and over rocks. ..."
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