climbing : Idioms & Phrases


Climbing fern

  • noun any of several ferns of the genus Lygodium that climb by twining
WordNet
  • . See under Fern.
Webster 1913

Climbing perch

  • noun a small perch of India whose gills are modified to allow it to breathe air; has spiny pectoral fins that enable it to travel on land
    A. testudineus; Anabas testudineus.
WordNet
  • . (Zoöl.) See Anabas, and Labyrinthici.
Webster 1913