Tendril

n.	1.	(Bot.) 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.
a.	1.	Clasping; climbing as a tendril.

Noun

1.

tendril - slender stemlike structure by which some twining plants attach themselves to an object for support

animal fiber, appendage, arm, artificial fiber, bine, bough, branch, branchedness, branchiness, burgeon, capillament, cilium, cirrus, cobweb, coil, corkscrew, curl, curlicue, deadwood, denier, evolute, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, flagellum, fork, frond, gossamer, gyre, hair, hand, hank, helix, imp, involute, joint, kink, leg, limb, link, lobe, lobule, member, offshoot, organ, pinion, ramage, ramification, ringlet, roll, runner, sarment, scion, screw, scroll, shoot, skein, slip, spear, spiral, spray, sprig, sprit, sprout, spur, stolon, strand, sucker, suture, swirl, switch, tail, thallus, thread, threadlet, twig, twirl, twist, volute, volution, vortex, web, whirl, whorl, wing

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