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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tendril \Ten"dril\, noun [Shortened fr. OF. tendrillon, fr. F. tendre tender; hence, properly, the tender branch or spring of a plant: cf. F. tendrille. See {Tender}, adjective, and cf. {Tendron}.] (Bot.) A slender, leafless portion of a plant by which it becomes attached to a supporting body, after which the tendril usually contracts by coiling spirally.
Note: Tendrils may represent the end of a stem, as in the grapevine; an axillary branch, as in the passion flower; stipules, as in the genus Smilax; or the end of a leaf, as in the pea.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Tendril \Ten"dril\, adjective Clasping; climbing as a tendril. [R.] --Dyer.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
tendril
noun: slender stemlike structure by which some twining plants attach themselves to an object for support
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
86 Moby Thesaurus words for "tendril": animal fiber, appendage, arm, artificial fiber, bine, bough, branch, branchedness, branchiness, burgeon, capillament, cilium, cirrus, cobweb, coil, corkscrew, curl, curlicue, deadwood, denier, evolute, fiber, fibrilla, filament, filamentule, flagellum, fork, frond, gossamer, gyre, hair, hand, hank, helix, imp, involute, joint, kink, leg, limb, link, lobe, lobule, member, offshoot, organ, pinion, ramage, ramification, ringlet, roll, runner, sarment, scion, screw, scroll, shoot, skein, slip, spear, spiral, spray, sprig, sprit, sprout, spur, stolon, strand, sucker, suture, swirl, switch, tail, thallus, thread, threadlet, twig, twirl, twist, volute, volution, vortex, web, whirl, whorl, wing
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