tendrilous

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   Tendril-like.

   • The long, curling, tendrilous appendages speedily affix themselves to sea-weeds, or other appropriate substances, and from their form and consistence anchor the egg firmly.
   • It was huge, the first thing you saw when you walked in the room, made from a flimsy cut of wood, overcarved with gaudy, tendrilous designs and studded with glued-on florets.
2. 2

   Having many tendrils.

   • This creeping tendrilous plant has a leaf like an obtuse rhomb, rather downy, and having a chilli-shaped aculeated pod, full of a long silky fibre adhering to the seeds.

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