[ adj ] used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb <adj.all> plants of a creeping or scandent nature
Scandent \Scan"dent\, a. [L. scandens, -entis, p. pr. of scandere to climb.] Climbing.
Note: Scandent plants may climb either by twining, as the hop, or by twisted leafstalks, as the clematis, or by tendrils, as the passion flower, or by rootlets, as the ivy.