Twining

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Twine.

II. Twining ·adj The act of one who, or that which, twines; (Bot.) the act of climbing spirally.

III. Twining ·adj Winding around something; twisting; embracing; climbing by winding about a support; as, the hop is a twinning plant.