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CLIMBING BONESET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does climbing boneset mean? 

CLIMBING BONESET (noun)
  The noun CLIMBING BONESET has 1 sense:

1. herb of tropical America having vanilla-scented flowers; climbs up treesplay

  Familiarity information: CLIMBING BONESET used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


CLIMBING BONESET (noun)


Sense 1

Meaning:

Herb of tropical America having vanilla-scented flowers; climbs up trees

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

climbing boneset; climbing hemp-vine; climbing hempweed; Mikania scandens; wild climbing hempweed

Hypernyms ("climbing boneset" is a kind of...):

vine (a plant with a weak stem that derives support from climbing, twining, or creeping along a surface)

Holonyms ("climbing boneset" is a member of...):

genus Mikania; Mikania (large genus of evergreen lianas of tropical America)


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