clinging vines
Tendril-wrapped climbing plants
Clinging vines are climbing plants that attach themselves to surfaces for support—ivy on walls, wisteria on trellises.
Figuratively, a clinging vine is a person, typically a woman, who depends excessively on others for emotional support or decision-making: He left because she was such a clinging vine.
The term carries dismissive, often sexist connotations.
- creepersPlants that spread upward
- climbing plantsFlora that grows upward
- bindweedTwining parasitic weed
- intertwinedTwisted together, connected
- ivyEvergreen climbing plant
poison ivy · dependents · tendril · hangers-on · trailing · climber · clematis · honeysuckle · suckers · strangler · aerial roots · wrap around · attachments · smothering · wisteria · adherent · green walls · Virginia creeper
personality type (figurative)
clinging vinesfree spirits
Independent, unconventional people
lone wolves · loners · self-starters · mavericks · strong silent types