| Tendril 1. (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. 2. (a.) Clasping; climbing as a tendril. Thesaurus Entries 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 |