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3 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Climbing \Climb"ing\, p. pr & vb n. of {Climb}. {Climbing fern}. See under {Fern}. {Climbing perch}. (Zo["o]l.) See {Anabas}, and {Labyrinthici}. From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Climb \Climb\ (kl[imac]m), v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Climbed} (kl[imac]md), Obs. or Vulgar {Clomb} (kl[o^]m); p. pr & vb n. {Climbing}.] [AS. climban akin to OHG. chlimban G. & D. klimmen Icel. kl[=i]fa, and E. cleave to adhere.] 1. To ascend or mount laboriously, esp. by use of the hands and feet. 2. To ascend as if with effort; to rise to a higher point. Black vapors climb aloft, and cloud the day --Dryden. 3. (Bot.) To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrils, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: climbing adj : used especially of plants; having a tendency to climb; "a climbing fern"; "plants of a creeping or scandent nature" [syn: {climbing(a)}, {scandent}] n : an event that involves rising to a higher point (as in altitude or temperature or intensity etc.) [syn: {climb}, {mounting}]
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