climber 的詞源

15世紀早期，“攀爬者”的意思，是從 climb（v.）派生出來的。植物學上的意思“一種通過依附於某些支撐物而上升的植物”來源於17世紀30年代。

Climbing plants are distinguished as stem-climbers, which like the hop, wind upward around an upright support, and as tendril-climbers, which, like the grape-vine, cling to adjacent objects by slender coiling tendrils. Other plants climb also by means of retrorse bristles or spines, or by means of rootlets. [Century Dictionary]

攀爬植物分爲 stem-climbers，像葡萄藤一樣向上纏繞直立支撐物，以及 tendril-climbers，像葡萄藤一樣通過細長的卷鬚纏繞附近的物體。其他植物也通過反向剛毛或刺或通過根鬚攀爬。