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Definition of Twiner
1. Noun. Someone who intertwines (e.g. threads) or forms something by twisting or interlacing.
Definition of Twiner
1. n. Any plant which twines about a support.
Definition of Twiner
1. Noun. Any plant which twines about a support. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Twiner
1. one that twines [n -S] - See also: twines
Medical Definition of Twiner
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Lexicographical Neighbors of Twiner
Literary usage of Twiner
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Anecdotes of Painters, Engravers, Sculptors and Architects and Curiosities by Shearjashub Spooner (1865)
"... but they were compelled to give them up to M. Scaurus, who took them to Rome.
THE GARLAND twiner. ..."
2. The Flora of British India by Joseph Dalton Hooker (1879)
"A twiner, with glabrous brunches. Leaves 6-10 in. long; leaflets the same shape
and size as in D. ..."
3. British Husbandry: Exhibiting the Farming Practice in Various Parts of the by John French Burke (1834)
"He then catche: the wisp with the crook of an implement called, in différait
places, a " twiner," a " throw-crook," or a " windle," which is made, ..."
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