— tendrillar, tendrilous , adj. — tendrilly , adj.
/ten"dril/ , n. Bot.
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.
[ 1530-40; earlier tendrel, var. (perh. by dissimilation) of ME tendren, tendron tendron shoot, sprout, cartilage ]