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Tendrilled :: Tendrilled (a.) Furnished with tendrils, or with such or so many, tendrils..

Tendril :: Tendril (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..

Cirrus :: Cirrus (n.) A tendril or clasper.

Cirriform :: Cirriform (a.) Formed like a cirrus or tendril; -- said of appendages of both animals and plants.

Claspered :: Claspered (a.) Furnished with tendrils.

Peduncular :: Peduncular (a.) Of or pertaining to a peduncle; growing from a peduncle; as, a peduncular tendril..

Clasper :: Clasper (n.) One who, or that which, clasps, as a tendril..

Tendriled :: Tendriled (a.) Alt. of Tendrille.

Leaf :: Leaf (n.) A special organ of vegetation in the form of a lateral outgrowth from the stem, whether appearing as a part of the foliage, or as a cotyledon, a scale, a bract, a spine, or a tendril..

Stipulary :: Stipular (a.) Of or pertaining to stipules; resembling stipules; furnished with stipules; growing on stipules, or close to them; occupying the position of stipules; as, stipular glands and stipular tendrils..

Creeper :: Creeper (n.) A plant that clings by rootlets, or by tendrils, to the ground, or to trees, etc.; as, the Virginia creeper (Ampelopsis quinquefolia)..

Amputate :: Amputate (v. t.) To prune or lop off, as branches or tendrils..

Capreolate :: Capreolate (a.) Having a tendril or tendrils.

Cling :: Cling (v. i.) To adhere closely; to stick; to hold fast, especially by twining round or embracing; as, the tendril of a vine clings to its support; -- usually followed by to or together..

Cirrose :: Cirrose (a.) Resembling a tendril or cirrus.

Amplectant :: Amplectant (a.) Clasping a support; as, amplectant tendrils..

Tendril :: Tendril (a.) Clasping; climbing as a tendril.

Pampiniform :: Pampiniform (a.) In the form of tendrils; -- applied especially to the spermatic and ovarian veins.

Vine :: Vine (n.) Hence, a climbing or trailing plant; the long, slender stem of any plant that trails on the ground, or climbs by winding round a fixed object, or by seizing anything with its tendrils, or claspers; a creeper; as, the hop vine; the bean vine; the vines of melons, squashes, pumpkins, and other cucurbitaceous plants..

Tendron :: Tendron (n.) A tendril.

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