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How to pronounce twiner in English?

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Type Words
Type of worker
Derivation twine

Examples of twiner

twiner
It had 44,000 spindles and 5000 twiner spindles, doing coarse counts from American.
From the en.wikipedia.org
Like the tendril-climbers, you have to have a support of some kind to grow a twiner horizontally.
From the dallasnews.com
Clematis are probably the most-often planted twiner.
From the dailyherald.com
More examples
  • Someone who intertwines (e.g. threads) or forms something by twisting or interlacing
  • A vine (Latin vu012Bnea "grapevine", "vineyard", from vu012Bnum "wine") in the narrowest sense is the grapevine (Vitis), but more generally it can refer to any plant with a growth habit of trailing or scandent (that is, climbing) stems or runners. The word also can refer to such stems or runners themselves, for instance when used in wicker work.
  • Any plant which twines about a support
  • A sort of double limerick devised by Walter de la Mare and displayed in his Stuff and Nonsense (1927). ...
  • A climbing plant with no tendrils or suckers, in which the stem winds around other plants or objects for support.