clinger

We were raised to be independent, liberated people - thinkers, not clingers."

Clingers climb walls by themselves, using holdfasts like little suction cups.

Clingers - Evolved from predator insects that once inhabited their homeworld.

There's a hell of a lot of them in the music business, clingers, dead wood, dead weights.

The larvae are generally considered to be clingers as can be seen by their wide stance for gripping substrates.

Several prosimians are primarily vertical clingers and leapers.

For these area-code clingers, those 10 little digits provide a constant in the face of changing locations and uncertain futures.

Clingers can slowly damage walls by trapping acid-rain-soaked plant debris against the masonry.

Habits: Nymphs of these damselflies are clingers.

But there were also great herds of clingers and jiffts, roaming the northern plains much as they did when the first settlers came."

Clingers like passionflowers, which use tendrils to grab, will make use of the flimsiest string.

Wasted clingers curled.

Some patients are "dependent clingers," Dr. Groves wrote.

With its first swerve, the truck threw off one of the clingers, while the other hit the gravel when the truck veered in the opposite direction.

"How refreshing to see someone more concerned with satisfying his own curiosity than with saying the right thing, or pandering to these stupid clingers and buffoons."

Colloquially, (laboratory slang) processive and distributive enzymes may be referred to as "clingers" and "hoppers", respectively.

The marriage was as stable as could be expected from two people with histories of instability; they partied a lot and had wild friends, clingers drawn to the Phelan name.

Sometimes these locomotor types are lumped together into two main groups of lemurs, the vertical clingers and leapers and the arboreal (and occasionally terrestrial) quadrupeds.

Emery Romito was oneof the clingers to the underside of the rock that was show biz, that dominated like Gibraltar the landscape of Americana.

They fall into three groups - twiners, clingers and leaners - and before beginning a relationship, it might be wise to find out the personality type with which you will be dealing.

If some day one of you bag clingers is seated near Row L at the Met and a tall guy with thinning brown hair approaches before the opera to ask that you please place your plastic bag beneath your seat, it's me.