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n. A twisting, threadlike structure by which a twining plant, such as a grape or cucumber, grasps an object or a plant for support.

n. Something, such as a ringlet of hair, that is long, slender, and curling.

n. A thin, spirally coiling stem that attaches a plant to its support.

n. A hair-like tentacle.

n. A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally.

adj. Clasping; climbing as a tendril.

n. In botany, a filiform leafless plant-organ that attaches itself to another body for the purpose of support.

Climbing as a tendril, or as by a tendril.

n. slender stem-like structure by which some twining plants attach themselves to an object for support

"I begin to think that one of the commonest means of transition is the same individual plant having the same part in different states: thus Corydalis claviculata, if you look to one leaf, may be called a tendril-bearer; if you look to another leaf it may be called a leaf-climber."

plant part    plant structure   

leaf-tendril   

cirrus    cirrhus   

clasping   

wisp    pergola    streamer    tress    strand    trickle    sliver    frond    overgrowth    wreath