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Tendril [ Botany ]

Dictionary of botanic terminology - index of names
     
  The thread-like clinging part of many climbing plant. A spirally long slender, coiled organ that attaches itself to another body for support, as in the Grapevine.  
     
A tendril may be a modified   stem, branch, leaf, or stipule.
     

 


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