Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun One who or that which twines.
- noun A machine for twining threads or fibers, as in cotton-spinning.
- noun A plant which supports itself by twining.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) Any plant which twines about a support.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any plant which
twines about a support.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun someone who intertwines (e.g. threads) or forms something by twisting or interlacing
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Examples
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The Volokh Conspiracy » Justice Scalia the Pragmatist?: 2004
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One family, the _Aristolochiaceæ_, represented by the curious "Dutchman's pipe" (_Aristolochia sipho_), a woody twiner with very large leaves, and the common wild ginger (_Asarum_) (Fig. 126), do not appear to be in any wise parasitic, but the structure of their curious flowers differs widely from any other group of plants.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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This is a pretty climber, or, more strictly speaking, a twiner; it is hardy, tuberous, and perennial.
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The curious woody twiner, moon-seed (_Menispermum_) (Fig. 101, _I_), is the sole example in the northern states of the family _Menispermeæ_ to which it belongs.
Elements of Structural and Systematic Botany For High Schools and Elementary College Courses Douglas Houghton Campbell
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For instance, it is clearly a great advantage to a twining plant to become a leaf-climber; and it is probable that every twiner which possessed leaves with long foot-stalks would have been developed into a leaf-climber if the footstalks had possessed in any slight degree the requisite sensitiveness to a touch.
VII. Miscellaneous Objections to the Theory of Natural Selection 1909
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A good compositous twiner, inhabiting moist lands.
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_ (A) A small but very attractive twiner, useful for thickets and small arbors.
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His work was so beautiful that it gained for him the name of Ghirlandajo, meaning the garland-twiner, a name that lived after him, in the great art of his son.
Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People Mary Schell Hoke Bacon 1902
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Starting out in life with apparently the best intentions, suddenly the tender young twiner develops an appetite for strong drink and murder combined, such as would terrify any budding criminal in Five Points or Seven Dials!
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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The name Magdalene may however mean 'the twiner or plaiter of hair,' and this interpretation possibly induced
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