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MIKANIA SCANDENS
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Herb of tropical America having vanilla-scented flowers; climbs up trees
Synonyms:
climbing boneset; climbing hemp-vine; climbing hempweed; Mikania scandens; wild climbing hempweed
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Mikania scandens" is a kind of...):
vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)
Holonyms ("Mikania scandens" is a member of...):
genus Mikania; Mikania (large genus of evergreen lianas of tropical America)