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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Climber \Climb"er\, noun One who, or that which, climbs: (a) (Bot.) A plant that climbs. (b) (Zo["o]l.) A bird that climbs, as a woodpecker or a parrot.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Climber \Climb"er\, verb (used without an object) [From {Climb}; cf. {Clamber}.] To climb; to mount with effort; to clamber. [Obs.] --Tusser.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
climber
noun
1: a vine or climbing plant that readily grows up a support or over other plants
2: someone seeking social prominence by obsequious behavior [syn: {social climber}]
3: someone who ascends on foot; "a solitary mounter of the staircase" [syn: {mounter}]
4: someone who climbs as a sport; especially someone who climbs mountains; "the lead climber looked strong still but his partner often slumped in his ropes"
5: an iron spike attached to the shoe to prevent slipping on ice when walking or climbing [syn: {crampon}, {crampoon}, {climbing iron}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
103 Moby Thesaurus words for "climber": adventurer, algae, alpinist, ascender, astronaut, autophyte, bean, bracken, brown algae, camper, comers and goers, commuter, conferva, confervoid, cosmopolite, cragsman, creeper, cruiser, diatom, excursionist, explorer, fare, fern, fruits and vegetables, fucus, fungus, globe-girdler, globe-trotter, goer, grapevine, green algae, gulfweed, hajji, herb, heterophyte, ivy, jet set, jet-setter, journeyer, kelp, legume, lentil, liana, lichen, liverwort, mariner, mold, moss, mountaineer, mushroom, palmer, parasite, parasitic plant, passenger, passerby, pathfinder, pea, perthophyte, phytoplankton, pilgrim, pioneer, planktonic algae, plant families, puffball, pulse, red algae, rockweed, rubberneck, rubbernecker, rust, sailor, saprophyte, sargasso, sargassum, sea lentil, sea moss, sea wrack, seaweed, sightseer, smut, straphanger, succulent, toadstool, tourer, tourist, trailblazer, trailbreaker, transient, traveler, trekker, tripper, upclimber, vetch, viator, vine, visiting fireman, voortrekker, voyager, voyageur, wayfarer, world-traveler, wort, wrack
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