climber (n.)

15世纪早期，“攀爬者”的意思，是从 climb（v.）派生出来的。植物学上的意思“一种通过依附于某些支撑物而上升的植物”来源于17世纪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]

攀爬植物分为 stem-climbers，像葡萄藤一样向上缠绕直立支撑物，以及 tendril-climbers，像葡萄藤一样通过细长的卷须缠绕附近的物体。其他植物也通过反向刚毛或刺或通过根须攀爬。