tendril: Meaning and Definition of

ten•dril

Pronunciation: (ten'dril), [key]
— n. Bot.
  1. a threadlike, leafless organ of climbing plants, often growing in spiral form, which attaches itself to or twines round some other body, so as to support the plant.
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