Crossword-Solution: MIDRIBS 7 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Plants which climb by the aid of spontaneously revolving and sensitive petioles—_Clematis_—_Tropæolum_—_Maurandia_, flower-peduncles moving spontaneously and sensitive to a touch—_Rhodochiton_—_Lophospermum_—internodes sensitive—_Solanum_, thickening of the clasped petioles—_Fumaria_—_Adlumia_—Plants which climb by the aid of their produced midribs—_Gloriosa_—_Flagellaria_—_Nepenthes_—Summary on leaf-climbers.

The midribs of the immense leaves form one of the most useful articles in these lands, supplying the place of bamboo, to which for many purposes they are superior.

The leaflet of the sago folded and tied side by side on the smaller midribs form the "atap" or thatch in universal use, while the product of the trunk is the staple food of some= hundred thousands of men.

When the "Martabah" is placed upon its "Mastabah" (bench of masonry or timber) or upon its "Sarír" (a framework of "jaríd" or midribs of the palm), it becomes the Díwan = divan.

The winds had blown the cocoons against the limbs and worn away the projecting edges of the leaves, but the midribs and veins showed plainly.