Definition of "scrambling"

scrambling

verb
1. present participle and gerund of scramble
noun
plural scramblings
1. The act by which something is scrambled.
adjective
comparative more scrambling, superlative most scrambling
1. Confused and irregular; awkward; scambling.
  Quotations
  A huge old scrambling bedroom.
  1826, [Walter Scott], Woodstock; Or, The Cavalier. […], volumes (please specify |volume=I to III), Edinburgh: […] [James Ballantyne and Co.] for Archibald Constable and Co.; London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown, and Green
2. (botany) Having a stem too weak to support itself, instead attaching to and relying on the stems or trunks of stronger plants.
  Quotations
  All three types of climbing organs here demonstrated for Late Palaeozoic seed ferns are also found in modern angiosperms. This leads to the conclusion that several taxa of Late Palaeozoic seed ferns were well-adapted to climbing and scrambling growth habits.
  1998, Kerp, Hans, and Michael Krings. "Climbing and scrambling growth habits: common life strategies among Late Carboniferous seed ferns", Comptes Rendus de l'Académie des Sciences, Series IIA-Earth and Planetary Science 326.8 (1998): 583-588.