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plural tendrils
(botany) A thin, spirally coiling stem that attaches a plant to its support. examples
(zoology) A hair-like tentacle.
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Having the shape or properties of a tendril; thin and coiling; entwining. quotations examples
Kissing the tendril fingers - at first because Mina, its mother, did not - but later with a rapture begot by its breath on her breast.
1907, Barbara Baynton, edited by Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson, Human Toll (Portable Australian Authors: Barbara Baynton), St Lucia: University of Queensland Press, published 1980, page 275