Another word for tendril | Synonyms for tendril

Another word for tendril

noun

A young stemlike growth arising from a plant:

bine, offshoot, runner, shoot, sprig, sprout. See kin

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Opposite some of these leaves springs a tendril, by aid of which the plant climbs.
Each podium consists of a portion of the stem bearing one or more leaves, each with an axillary bud or buds, and terminating in a tendril or an inflorescence.
Labrusca there is a tendril opposite to each leaf, so that the podium bears only a single leaf.
This new podium, now in a direct line with its predecessor, produces leaves and ends in its turn in a tendril or inflorescence.
When a sensitive tendril comes into contact with a foreign body, its growth becomes so modified that it twines round it.

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