twining

See also: Twining

English

A twining plant

twining (countable and uncountable, plural twinings)

(countable) A layout or motion that twines.
- 1907, Ludwig Jost, Robert John Harvey Gibson, Lectures on plant physiology:
  In addition to autonomous movements in one plane we have also autonomous movements in space, such as torsions and twinings.
(British, uncountable, regional, Cumbria) complaining or grumbling
- 2009 November 23, agency., “Cockermouth starts journey back from flood devastation”, in The Guardian:
  Canon Bryan Rowe, quoted in the article. It's going to take months to put right. But you won't hear any twining [Cumbrian dialect for moaning]. Nobody is going: 'Woe is us'. Everybody is just trying to help somebody else.

twining (not comparable)

That twines.
- 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 1]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
  White breast of the dim sea. The twining stresses, two by two. A hand plucking the harpstrings, merging their twining chords.

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