(Of a plant or organ) coiling around a structure or another plant.
Coiling around plants or objects as a means of support.
Climbing by coiling around something.
A stem of a vine that climbs by winding itself around a support.
Gaining height by growing in a spiral manner around a support that is more or less vertically oriented, such as a stake or a tree sapling. A species of twiner is nearly always constant in its direction of twining, whether clockwise or anticlockwise (hence ‘the right-handed honeysuckle and the left-handed bindweed’). The shoot apex of a twiner can sweep in a broad circle up to several times in a day in order to detect a possible support, which it then ‘senses’ and begins to twine around.