In botany, a tendril is a specialized stem, leaf or petiole with a threadlike shape used by climbing plants for support and attachment, as well as cellular invasion by parasitic plants such as Cuscuta.

What is the English meaning of tendril?

1 : a leaf, stipule, or stem modified into a slender spirally coiling sensitive organ serving to attach a climbing plant to its support. 2 : something suggestive of a tendril creeping tendrils of fog.

How do you use tendril in a sentence?

1 Her hair hung in tendrils about her face. 2 The plant's tendrils curled up the stick. 3 Tendrils of hair strayed to the edge of her pillow. 4 He could feel the tendrils curling around his legs.