Mikania scandens
- noun
- Specialized
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Mikania scandens
- Gardeners often plant Mikania scandens for its attractive, vanilla-scented flowers.
Examples
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The Mikania scandens vine can often be seen climbing trees.
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Entwined with native trees, Mikania scandens created a lush green curtain along the riverbank.
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The fence in the botanical garden was covered by the Mikania scandens and its fragrant blossoms.
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Have you ever seen a Mikania scandens flower?
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In tropical America, Mikania scandens climbs up trees, creating a green backdrop with its fragrant flowers.
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Many gardeners choose to grow Mikania scandens because of its lovely vanilla-scented blooms.
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During spring, Mikania scandens spreads its fragrant flowers across the garden, attracting various pollinators.
Synonyms
A tropical American plant that climbs trees and has flowers that smell like vanilla
A climbing tropical plant with flowers that smell of vanilla
A tropical climbing plant that grows up trees and has small flowers that smell like vanilla
A tropical plant with vanilla-scented flowers that climbs trees
Surface Forms
Morphology
Mikania + scandens
This is a botanical Latin binomial: 'Mikania' names a genus of climbing plants and 'scandens' is a Latin epithet meaning 'climbing' (not a common English word). If a learner knows both constituents (including the Latin epithet) the meaning 'a climbing plant/herb' is recoverable, but for an average B1 learner unfamiliar with botanical/Latin epithets the relation is not fully predictable.
Etymology
Mikania scandens comes from a scientist's name, Mikan, and the word scandens, meaning 'climbing'. The name fits the plant: it climbs up trees and makes a green 'curtain' of vanilla-scented flowers, so the name helps you remember how it looks and smells.
