VividLex

Home / Thesaurus / tendril

Thesaurus: tendril

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.

Full dictionary entry Search Lens associations

Related headwords

Definitions

  1. a. 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.
  3. n. slender stem-like structure by which some twining plants attach themselves to an object for support
  4. A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomesattached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usuallycontracts by coiling spirally.
  5. n:100 n. slender stem-like structure by which some twining plants attach themselves to an object for support