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

Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils. "The thousand tendriled vine." Southey.

Clasping a support; as, amplectant tendrils. Gray.

To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils.

Having a tendril or tendrils.

Formed like a cirrus or tendril; -- said of appendages of both animals and plants.

Bearing a tendril or tendrils; as, a cirrose leaf.

A tendril or clasper.

One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril. "The claspers of vines." Derham.

Furnished with tendrils.

To ascend or creep upward by twining about a support, or by attaching itself by tendrills, rootlets, etc., to a support or upright surface.

adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; -- usually followed by to or together. And what hath life for thee That thou shouldst cling to it thus Mrs. Hemans.

ine, clinging to the ground or to some other support by means of roots or rootlets, or by tendrils, along its length. "Creeping vines." Dryden.

A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia).

Growing along, and clinging to, the ground, or to a wall, etc., by means of rootlets or tendrils. Casements lined with creeping herbs. Cowper. Ceeping crowfoot (Bot.), a plant, the Ranunculus repens.- Creeping snowberry, an American plant (Chiogenes hispidula) with white berries and very small round leaves having the f…

An accessory organ such as a tendril, stipule, spine, and the like. [R.] Gray.

er appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril.

plants found in India, Malaya, etc., which have the leaves prolonged into a kind of stout tendril terminating in a pitcherlike appendage, whence the plants are often called pitcher plants and monkey-cups. There are about thirty species, of which the best known is Nepenthes distillatoria. See Pitcher plant.…

In the form of tendrils; -- applied especially to the spermatic and ovarian veins.

Of or pertaining to a peduncle; growing from a peduncle; as, a peduncular tendril.