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tendrilIn botany, a slender, threadlike structure that supports a climbing plant by coiling around suitable supports, such as the stems and branches of other plants. It may be a modified stem, leaf, leaflet, flower, leaf stalk, or stipule (a small appendage on either side of the leaf stalk), and may be simple or branched. The tendrils of Virginia creeper Parthenocissus quinquefolia are modified flower heads with suckerlike pads at the end that stick to walls, while those of the grapevine Vitis grow away from the light and thus enter dark crevices where they expand to anchor the plant firmly. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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| His stomach, less resigned than he was, rebelled, and he was obliged to fasten a tendril of wild-vine tightly about his waist. , as though the toes were shooting forth a tendril which might hope in time to entwine itself around his massive leg. Hale took the tiny rattan beside the big Mission rocker, her slender hand curled like a tendril in Edmund's. |
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